4 Va. App. 310 - Moran v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2003
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Soto v. United States · Webb v. Commonwealth · Inge v. Commonwealth · Cameron v. Commonwealth · Dotson 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]here inferences are relied upon to establish guilt, [those inferences] must point to guilt so clearly that any other conclusion would be inconsistent therewith.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McQuinn v. Com.
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.