McGann v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2012
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 Watkins v. Virginia · Watkins v. Commonwealth · Breeden v. Commonwealth · 29 Ill. 2d 97 - The People v. Scott · 10 Va. App. 563 - Stewart 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.
“when a witness has a memory lapse on the stand and `forgets some portion (or even all) of the facts of the matter about which [he or she is] called to testify,' a party may attempt to `refresh' the witness's memory by having the witness examine materials relating to the matter for which they are testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruhlin v. Samaan“Per se rules of disqualification which are based on 'a presumption of [juror] bias or prejudice,' are disfavored in Virginia.”
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.