14 Va. App. 449 - Driscoll v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 44 Va. App. 51 - Estate of Hackler v. Hackler (2004), 39 Va. App. 670 - Harris v. Commonwealth (2003)
60 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 Frye v. Commonwealth · Morrison v. Bestler · Richardson v. Richardson · Hart v. Commonwealth · Eason v. Eason
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court may affirm the judgment of a trial court when it has reached the right result for the wrong reason.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“an appellee may argue for the first time on appeal any legal ground in support of a judgment so long as it does not require new factual determinations or involve an affirmative defense that must be asserted in the pleadings or serve as a subterfuge for a constitutionally prohibited cross-appeal in a criminal case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Although the Commonwealth raised this argument for the first time on appeal, we have long held that `Rule 5A:18 does not require an appellee to raise an issue at trial before it may be considered on appeal, where the issue is not offered to support reversal of a trial court ruling.'”
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.