13 Va. App. 177 - Collins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
December 2004
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Inge v. Commonwealth · Schneider v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 531 - Crews v. Commonwealth · Garland 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he credibility of witnesses and the weight accorded their testimony are matters solely for the fact finder who has the opportunity of seeing and hearing the witnesses.'”
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.