Dingus v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2003
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Sims v. Commonwealth · Parsons v. Commonwealth · Oliver v. Commonwealth · Mohler v. Commonwealth · Harley 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[E]very person charged with crime is entitled to have his case determined solely by the evidence produced at his trial. There is no testimony in this case as to criminals of Wise County, Tazewell County, or those of Kentucky or Tennessee; and no such evidence referring to other criminals could have been introduced against the accused, had it been offered. The accused could neither be punished for their crimes nor have his punishment enhanced because of their iniquities.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e want a verdict at your hands that will say to the criminals of Wise County and the criminals of Tazewell County and the criminals of Kentucky and Tennessee, that they cannot make Russell County their playground.” 153 Va. at 851 , 149 S.E. at 415 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If it had not been for the defendant there firing that shot and killing the deceased, his widow would not be here in mourning weeds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Angelone
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.