8 Va. App. 117 - Stevens v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1998
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Inge v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 433 - Mounce v. Commonwealth · Bishop v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 564 - Mullis v. Commonwealth · Cantrell 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances of motive, time, place, means, and conduct must all concur to form an unbroken chain”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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