16 Va. App. 630 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 26 Va. App. 335 - Watkins v. Commonwealth (1998), 35 Va. App. 286 - Oliver v. Commonwealth (2001)
42 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 Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Justis v. Young · Shifflett v. Commonwealth · Gilchrist v. Commonwealth · 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[w]e have many times pointed out that on appeal the judgment of the lower court is presumed to be correct and the burden is on the appellant to present to us a sufficient record from which we can determine whether the lower court has erred in the respect complained of. If the appellant fails to do this, the judgment will be affirmed.””
4 later decisions 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.