15 Va. App. 416 - Neal v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 41 Va. App. 752 - Edwards v. Commonwealth (2003), 42 Va. App. 347 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (2004)
53 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 Barrett v. United States · Huff v. White Motor Corp. · 8 Va. App. 126 - Brown v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 524 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Wright v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Rule 5A:18 is to alert the trial judge to possible error so that the judge may consider the issue intelligently and take any corrective actions necessary to avoid unnecessary appeals, reversals and mistrials.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No 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“Generally, when a specific objection is made to evidence or when inquiry is made by the trial judge concerning the purpose of evidence, the proponent of the evidence has the burden of establishing its admissibility.”
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.