4 Va. App. 317 - McGee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 23 Va. App. 394 - Shears v. Commonwealth (1996), 16 Va. App. 751 - Hamilton v. Commonwealth (1993)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 Coleman v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Drew v. Commonwealth · Powers v. Commonwealth · Gillis 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Possession of a controlled substance may be actual or constructive. “To support a conviction based upon constructive possession, ‘the Commonwealth must point to evidence of acts, statements, or conduct of the accused or other facts or circumstances which tend to show that the defendant was aware of both the presence and character of the substance and that it was subject to his dominion and control.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of facts could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] prior motion to strike the evidence ... is not a prerequisite to a motion to set aside the verdict”
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.