10 Va. App. 158 - Hudson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 58 Va. App. 35 - Scott v. Commonwealth (2011), 13 Va. App. 540 - Robinson v. Commonwealth (1992)
26 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 McCann v. Commonwealth · Perry 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature has set the range for punishment for those who violate the [criminal law]. In establishing the sentencing range it endowed the trial court with inherent and discretionary power to impose appropriate sentences. ... If the sentence is within the range set by the legislature, an appellate court will not interfere with the judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the sentence imposed by the trial court is within the statutory range established by the legislature, use of the guidelines as a “tool” to assist the court in determining the appropriate sentence [is proper].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`If the sentence is within the range set by the legislature, an appellate court will not interfere with the judgment.'”
1 later decision 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.