17 Va. App. 620 - Leith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2015
10 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 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Schaaf v. Commonwealth · Matter of Two Seized Firearms · 14 Va. App. 666 - Williams v. Commonwealth · 17 Va. App. 124 - Watson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]rom his position next to the driver's door, [Pruitt] could have easily obtained his gun from the console. This evidence supported the trial judge's finding that the weapon was concealed `about the person' within the meaning of Code § 18.2-308.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pruitt v. Com.
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.