Taylor v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 8 Va. App. 291 - Davis v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 497 - Cooper v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 447 - Johnson v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 167 - Terry v. Commonwealth · Blevins v. Town of Marion
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of an instruction is to furnish guidance to the jury in their deliberations, and to aid them in arriving at a proper verdict, so far as it is competent for the court to assist them. The chief object contemplated in the charge of the judge is to explain the law of the case, to point out the essentials to be proved on the one side or the other, and to bring into view the relation of the particular evidence adduced to the particular issues involved. In his instructions the trial judge should inform the jury as to the law of the case applicable to the facts in such a manner that they may not be misled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial judge should [instruct] the jury as to the law of the case applicable to the facts in such a manner that they may not be misled”
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.