5 Va. App. 283 - Wynn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 18 Va. App. 510 - Hughes v. Commonwealth (1994), 16 Va. App. 408 - Brandau v. Commonwealth (1993)
36 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 · Drew v. Commonwealth · Powers v. Commonwealth · Karnes v. Commonwealth · Garland 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [trier of fact] may consider the conduct of the person involved and all the circumstances revealed by the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It generally is necessary to show that the defendant was aware of the presence and character of the particular substance and was intentionally and consciously in possession of it.... [Possession need not always be exclusive. The defendant may share it with one or more. The duration of the possession is immaterial and need not always be shown to have been actual possession. The defendant may be shown to have constructive possession [of the contraband] ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. Powell“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 the Defendant was aware of both the presence and character of the substance and that it was subject to his dominion and control.”
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.