14 Va. App. 77 - Jefferson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2010
7 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 Powers v. Commonwealth · Eckhart v. Commonwealth · Schaaf v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 489 - Brown v. Commonwealth · Sutherland 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Any person unlawfully in possession of (i) a controlled substance classified in Schedule I of the Drug Control Act ... or (ii) coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation thereof as described in Schedule II of the Drug Control Act ... who simultaneously with knowledge and intent possess[es] any firearm shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. B. Any firearm possessed in violation of this section shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth pursuant to the provisions of § 18.2-310.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. It shall be unlawful for any person unlawfully in possession of a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II of the Drug Control Act to simultaneously with knowledge and intent possess any firearm. A violation of this subsection is a Class 6 felony.... B. It shall be unlawful for any person unlawfully in possession of a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II of the Drug Control Act to simultaneously with knowledge and intent possess any firearm on or about his person. A violation of this subsection is a Class 6 felony ... and any person convicted hereunder shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of two years.... C. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, use, or attempt to use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm or display such weapon in a threatening manner while committing or attempting to commit the illegal manufacture, sale, distribution, or the possession with the intent to manufacture, sell, or distribute a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Drug Control Act or more than one pound of marijuana. A violation of this subsection is a Class 6 felony, ... and any person convicted hereunder shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years____”
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.