15 Va. App. 717 - Hunter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018
17 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 Spencer v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Texas · 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Coe 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person (i) charged with a misdemeanor offense or (ii) convicted of a misdemeanor offense and execution of sentence is suspended pursuant to § 19.2-319 who -willfully fails to appear before any court as required shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When a criminal offense consists of an act and a particular [intent], both the act and [intent] are independent and necessary elements of the crime that the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Evidence which bears upon and is pertinent to matters in issue, and which tends to prove the offense, is relevant and should be admitted.'”
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.