8 Va. App. 194 - Long v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 27 Va. App. 505 - Marable v. Commonwealth (1998), 28 Va. App. 20 - Welshman v. Commonwealth (1998)
2 federal appellate · 131 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 · Barker v. Commonwealth · Ridley v. Commonwealth · Hargrave v. Commonwealth · Dawkins 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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, giving it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. 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 . . . .'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Intent is the purpose formed in a person's mind which may, and often must, be inferred from the facts and circumstances in a particular case.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]alice inheres in the doing of a wrongful act intentionally, or without just cause or excuse, or as a result of ill will. It may be directly evidenced by words, or inferred from acts and conduct which necesarily [sic] result in injury. Its existence is a question of fact to be determined by [the trier of fact].”
2 later decisions 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.