17 Va. App. 627 - Morse v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 22 Va. App. 61 - Goodson v. Commonwealth (1996), 26 Va. App. 702 - Luczkovich v. Luczkovich (1998)
30 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 Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Frye v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other offenses is admitted if it shows the conduct, and feeling of the accused toward his victim, if it establishes their prior relations, or if it tends to prove any relevant element of the offense charged. Such evidence is permissive in cases where the motive, intent, or knowledge of the accused is involved, or where the evidence is connected with or leads up to the offense for which the accused is on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a well established rule that under normal circumstances a trial court is under no obligation to amend or correct an instruction that contains a misstatement of law. However, “when the principle of law is materially vital to [the] defendant in a criminal case, it is reversible error for the trial court to refuse a defective instruction instead of correcting it and giving it in the proper form.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Darnell v. Commonwealth, 6 Va.App. 485, 488 , 370 S.E.2d 717, 719 (1988). The evidence relied on to support a proffered instruction must amount to”
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.