Mullins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1992
12 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 Merritt v. Commonwealth · Lynch v. Commonwealth · Thacker v. Commonwealth · Glover v. Commonwealth · Wood 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence was, we think, insufficient to convict the accused of an attempted rape. While it showed the desire on the part of the assailant to commit the crime, there was no overt act which demonstrated a present intention to accomplish it. Certainly there was no overt act which reached ‘far enough towards the accomplishment of the desired result to amount to the commencement of the consummation.’ “Notwithstanding the fact that this little girl was entirely within his power, no extraneous circumstances frustrated the consummation of the crime. His improper advances were terminated upon her mere request.” 174 Va. at 479 , 5 S.E.2d at 492 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.