Rasnake v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Karnes v. Commonwealth · Tippett v. Brooks · Horton v. Commonwealth · Sutton v. State · Russ v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court instructs the jury that principals in the first degree in every murder or other crime are those who are the actors or actual perpetrators of the crime — those who are the immediate perpetrators of the act. That principals in the second degree are those who did not with their own hands commit the act, but were present aiding and abetting it. It is not necessary in order to make a person a principal in the second degree that he actually participate in the commission of the crime. The test as to whether or not he is principal in the second degree is, was he encouraging, inciting, or in some manner offering aid or consent to the crime? A' person present lending countenance, or otherwise aiding, while another does the act, is principal in the second degree, and liable to the same punishment as if he were principal in the first degree and actually committed the crime. Rasnake v. Commonwealth, 135 Va. 677 , 115 S. E. 543 .”
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.