12 Va. App. 1066 - Commonwealth v. Grimstead’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 23 Va. App. 394 - Shears v. Commonwealth (1996), 17 Va. App. 606 - Greene v. Commonwealth (1994)
194 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Arizona v. Hicks · Williamson v. Florida · Delong 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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e view the evidence in a light most favorable to . . . the prevailing party below, and we grant all reasonable inferences fairly deducible from that evidence.”
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.