39 Va. App. 342 - Pease v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We let the decision stand unless we conclude no rational juror could have reached that decision.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Va. App. 389 - Neel v. Commonwealth · 46 Va. App. 234 - Stevens v. Commonwealth

2. “This familiar standard gives full play to the responsibility of the trier of fact fairly to resolve conflicts in the testimony, to weigh the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Va. App. 389 - Neel v. Commonwealth

3. “The statement that circumstantial evidence must exclude every reasonable theory of innocence is simply another way of stating that the Commonwealth has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vasquez v. Commonwealth