14 Va. App. 892 - Hall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Johnson v. Commonwealth (1996), Phillips v. Commonwealth (1999)
68 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen v. United States · Grady v. Corbin
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the same act be a violation of two or more statutes ... conviction under one of such statutes ... shall be a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under the other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] `prosecution or proceeding' after a `conviction,' by definition requires multiple or successive proceedings or prosecutions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“subjecting an accused to the hazards of vexatious, multiple prosecutions.”
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.