14 Va. App. 988 - Campbell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth (1997), 41 Va. App. 752 - Edwards v. Commonwealth (2003)
56 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Speiser v. Randall · LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhen a principle of law is vital to a defendant in a criminal case, a trial court has an affirmative duty properly to instruct a jury about the matter.” That duty arises even when “trial counsel neglected to object to the instruction.” Obviously, the proper description of the elements of the offenses is vital to a defendant. Attaining the ‘ ‘ends of justice’ ’ requires correction of an instruction which allows a jury to convict a defendant without proof of an element of a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o ruling of the trial court . . . will be considered as a basis for reversal unless the objection was stated together with the grounds therefor at the time of the ruling, except for good cause shown or to enable the Court of Appeals to attain the ends of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is elementary that a jury must be informed as to the essential elements of the offense; a correct statement of the law is the one of the “essentials of a fair trial.””
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.