Buzzard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Boynton v. Kilgore (2006), 1 Va. App. 118 - Parra v. Parra (1985)
23 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 Union Central Life Ins. v. Pollard · People v. Mayne · Campbell v. Wilson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n Virginia the age of consent is fifteen years. Under that age [the child] cannot legally consent to the act, and constructive force is present, even though she does in fact consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intention [of the legislature] must be gathered from the words used, but unreasonable or absurd results must not be reached by too strict adherence to literal interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must yield to a reasonable and fair interpretation to be gathered from the context, the subject matter and the reason and spirit of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.