10 Va. App. 300 - Morrison v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Ryan v. Commonwealth · Elam v. Commonwealth · Rowland v. Commonwealth · State v. Pettijohn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Penetration may be proved by circumstantial evidence and is not dependent on direct testimony from the victim that penetration occurred.”
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.