13 Va. App. 540 - Robinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 17 Va. App. 384 - Tart v. Commonwealth (1993), 18 Va. App. 656 - Thomas v. Commonwealth (1994)
33 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 Commonwealth v. Burns · 10 Va. App. 158 - Hudson 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`If the sentence is within the range set by the legislature, an appellate court will not interfere with the judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder the rule of stare decisis, a decision by a panel of this court is an established precedent.”
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.