16 Va. App. 959 - Banks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2019
13 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 Barker v. Commonwealth · United States v. Ruiz · 2 Va. App. 437 - Speller v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Commonwealth · 77 Cal. App. 3d 924 - People v. Allen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of specific acts of misconduct is generally not admissible in Virginia to impeach a witness’ credibility. Clark v. Commonwealth, 202 Va. 787, 789-90 , 120 S.E.2d 270, 272 (1961). However, where the evidence, as here, is relevant to show that a witness is biased or has a motive to fabricate, it is not collateral and should be admitted. “[Attempting to introduce evidence of prior misconduct, for which there has been no criminal conviction, to impeach a witness’ general character for truthfulness differs from attempting to introduce such evidence to show that a witness is biased or motivated by self interest in a particular case.” Commonwealth v. Shands, 338 Pa.Super. 296, 302 , 487 A.2d 973, 976 (1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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