Mullins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Vestal (1971), 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth (1987)
36 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 McCue v. Commonwealth · McBride v. Commonwealth · Kirby v. Commonwealth · Jessie v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 369 - McCormick v. City of Virginia Beach
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was no evidence that the accused knew that [the victim] was to be a witness, or that he knew anything about the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodges v. Com.“determined by the court, and not by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.