6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth (1997), 23 Va. App. 394 - Shears v. Commonwealth (1996)
166 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because direct proof of intent [to distribute drugs, or imitation drugs] is often impossible, it must be shown by circumstantial evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where inferences are relied upon to establish guilt, they must point to guilt so clearly that any other conclusion would be inconsistent therewith.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“when considered with other circumstances, may be sufficient to establish an intent to distribute.”
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.