4 Va. App. 248 - Bright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Wright v. West (1992), 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth (1997)
3 federal appellate · 71 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 Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · Evans v. Commonwealth · Wright v. Commonwealth · Dunlavey v. Commonwealth · Johnson 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘Breaking, as an element of the crime of burglary, may be either actual or constructive .... Actual breaking involves the application of some force, slight though it may be, whereby the entrance is effected. Merely pushing open a door, turning the key, lifting the latch, or resort to other slight physical force is sufficient to constitute this element of the crime.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once the crime [of larceny] is established, the unexplained possession of recently stolen goods permits an inference of larceny by the possessor.”
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.