15 Va. App. 490 - Commonwealth v. Viar’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
September 2000
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Heaton v. Commonwealth · United States v. Syler · Commonwealth v. Sepulveda
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasons for the requirement of notice of purpose and authority have been said to be that the law abhors unnecessary breaking or destruction of any house, because the dweller in the house would not know the purpose of the person breaking in, unless he were notified, and would have a right to resist seeming aggression on his private property.”
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.