42 Va. App. 739 - Seaton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
68 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Funk v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Nextwave Personal Communications Inc. · Commonwealth v. Hudson · 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jackson, 443 U.S. at 318-19 , 99 S.Ct. at 2789 (emphasis in original and citation omitted). We must instead ask whether”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could have come to the conclusion it did. Kelly, 41 Va.App. at 257 , 584 S.E.2d at 447 (quoting Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979)); Seaton v. Commonwealth, 42 Va.App. 739, 746 , 595 S.E.2d 9, 13 (2004); Pease v. Commonwealth, 39 Va.App. 342, 355 , 573 S.E.2d 272, 278 (2002) ( en banc ) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ask itself whether it believes that the evidence at the trial established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.