4 Va. App. 484 - Boothe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 16 Va. App. 751 - Hamilton v. Commonwealth (1993), 7 Va. App. 574 - Castaneda v. Commonwealth (1989)
30 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 Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Turner v. Commonwealth · Bishop v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 518 - Norman v. Commonwealth · Reigert 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] 11 necessary circumstances proved must be consistent with guilt and inconsistent with innocence and must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. The circumstances of motive, time, place, means, and conduct must all concur to form an unbroken chain which links the defendant to the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`must be consistent with guilt and inconsistent with innocence and ... exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence”
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.