Limbaugh v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 44 Va. App. 741 - Thomas v. Commonwealth (2005), Rawle v. McIlhenny (1934)
34 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 Repass v. Richmond · Jessie v. Commonwealth · Oliver v. Commonwealth · Flick v. Commonwealth · Jarrell 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It thus appears that there may be seduction by a married man, without .‘urgent importunity based upon professions of attachment’, and that the offense consists in leading astray from the paths of virtue of a female of previous chaste character. If other means than appeals to the affection of the female overcome her scruples, debase her nature and draw her aside from the path of virtue, the offense has been committed. If the enticements and influences used to accomplish the purpose of ‘overcoming her reluctance and scruples’ and cause her to submit to the intercourse to which she would not otherwise have submitted, ‘they are sufficient in law.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The jury are the sole judges of the credibility and weight of testimony. If the evidence is relevant, it should be received, and the jury should be permitted to determine its credibility and weight. The trial court can strike out evidence that is relevant only where, after giving full faith and credit to the witnesses and drawing all inferences from their testimony that a jury might fairly draw therefrom, it plainly appears that the trial court would feel compelled to set aside a verdict found in accordance therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘It is a familiar rule that it is improper, on the trial of a defendant for a crime, to prove that he has committed other crimes, having no connection with the one under investigation. Such other acts of criminality or immorality are not legally relevant and should not be dragged in to prejudice the defendant or to create a probability of guilt.’ See also 10 R. C. L., page 951, section 121; Dillard v. Collins, 25 Gratt. (66 Va.) 343, 359; Price v. Commonwealth, 21 Gratt. (62 Va.) 846, 868.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.