11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 14 Va. App. 836 - Branch v. Commonwealth (1992), 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese v. Commonwealth (1993)
103 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 Pelaes v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Frye v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Sutton 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is concert of action with the resulting crime one of its incidental probable consequences, then whether such crime was originally contemplated or not, all who participate in any way in bringing it about are equally answerable and bound by the acts of every other person connected with the consummation of such resulting crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Concerted action is defined as `[a]ction that has been planned, arranged, adjusted, agreed on and settled between parties acting together pursuant to some design or scheme.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On appeal, `we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to [the evidence] all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.'”
3 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.