14 Va. App. 769 - Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2018
15 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 10 Va. App. 87 - Josephs v. Commonwealth · Herchenbach v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 109 - Smith 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident in which a person is ... injured ... shall immediately stop ... and report his name, address, driver’s license number, and vehicle registration number forthwith.... The driver shall also render reasonable assistance to any person injured in such accident, including taking such injured person to a physician, surgeon, or hospital if it is apparent that medical treatment is necessary or is requested by the injured person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[k]nowledge necessarily is an essential element of the crime .... [I]n order to be guilty of violating the statute, "the driver must be aware that harm has been done; it must be present in his mind that there has been an injury; and then, with that in his mind, he must deliberately go away without making himself known."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The identification requirement is intended to facilitate accident investigation and to preserve public order.”
1 later decision 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.