7 Va. App. 292 - Cirios v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (2003), 11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth (1991)
49 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 Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Donovan v. Dewey · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Parks v. Commonwealth · United States v. Portsmouth Paving Corporation and R. Curtis Saunders, Jr.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In so doing, we must discard the evidence of the accused in conflict with that of the Commonwealth, and regard as true all the credible evidence favorable to the Commonwealth and all fair inferences that may be drawn therefrom.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. Com.
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.