17 Va. App. 349 - Neeley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hoke v. Jd Netherland Hoke (1996), 40 Va. App. 271 - Cairns v. Commonwealth (2003)
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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Jenkins v. McKeithen · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant cannot be deprived of the opportunity to put his evidence and version of the facts before the jury so "as to deprive a criminal defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accuser and to call witnesses in his defense," or simply because the trial court finds the prosecutrix's version more credible than the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“limited to evidence designed to explain the presence of semen, pregnancy, disease, or physical injury to the complaining witness's intimate parts,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“offered to provide an alternative explanation for physical evidence of the offense charged.”
2 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.