57 Va. App. 495 - Ervin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States · South Dakota v. Opperman
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he judgment of the trial court is presumed to be correct and will be reversed only upon a showing that it is 'plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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