Saunders v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1945
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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Relies on Sutherland 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The difference between the Layman Act and the present Alcoholic Beverage Control Law is pointed out with admirable clarity by Mr. Justice Spratley in Sutherland v. Commonwealth, 171 Va. 485, 492 , 198 S. E. 452 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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