13 Va. App. 524 - Martin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 41 Va. App. 752 - Edwards v. Commonwealth (2003), 15 Va. App. 416 - Neal v. Commonwealth (1992)
95 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 Harlow v. Commonwealth · Justis v. Young · Guss v. Commonwealth · Woods v. Hunt and Son, Inc. · Cortner 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Rule 5A:18 is to alert the trial judge to possible error so that the judge may consider the issue intelligently and take any corrective actions necessary to avoid unnecessary appeals, reversals and mistrials.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he main purpose of the rule is to ensure the trial court can `consider the issue intelligently and take any corrective actions necessary to avoid unnecessary appeals, reversals and mistrials.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“alert the trial judge and the Commonwealth that simple assault is a lesser-included offense of attempted capital murder and [that] sufficient evidence supported granting the instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.