4 Va. App. 154 - Monroe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth (1988), 10 Va. App. 87 - Josephs v. Commonwealth (1990)
35 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dukes v. Commonwealth · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · Colbert v. Commonwealth · Hunter v. Commonwealth · Patterson 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`However, even if the substance is packaged for distribution, there must be additional evidence to preclude the inference that it was purchased in the packaged form for personal use[,] rather than being held in that fashion for distribution.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the presence of a large, or bulk, quantity from which smaller packages may have been made up for distribution'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Possession of a small quantity creates an inference that the drug is for personal use.'”
3 later decisions 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.