39 Va. App. 96 - Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
79 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth · 16 Va. App. 751 - Hamilton v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 238 - Dodge v. Dodge · Glasco v. Commonwealth · 26 Va. App. 763 - Glasco v. Commonwealth
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`presume the judgment of the trial court to be correct'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Instead, the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. 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
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.