16 Va. App. 113 - Cole v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2014
23 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 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth · Eckhart v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 892 - Hall v. Commonwealth · Harmon v. Commonwealth · Sadoski 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, experience and judicial discipline to disregard potentially prejudicial comments and to separate, during the mental process of adjudication, the admissible from the inadmissible, even though he has heard both." Eckhart v. Commonwealth, 222 Va. 213, 216 , 279 S.E.2d 155, 157 (1981). Consequently, we presume that a trial judge disregards prejudicial or inadmissible evidence. Hall v. Commonwealth, 14 Va.App. 892, 902 , 421 S.E.2d 455, 462 (1992) ( en banc ). Finally, "this presumption will control in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary." [Id.] . . . This is not to say that the admission of improper evidence in a bench trial may never result in reversible error. Where the record makes clear that the judge considered such inadmissible evidence in adjudicating the merits of the case, reversal would be appropriate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“volunteer[ing] the name of one of the felonies for which he had been convictedgrand larcenywithout being asked to do so by the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the admission of improper evidence in a bench trial [could] never result in reversible error.”
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.