James v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 41 Va. App. 752 - Edwards v. Commonwealth (2003), Foster v. Commonwealth (1942)
5 federal appellate · 16 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 Commonwealth v. Sherman · 119 Cal. App. 393 - People v. Rallo · Brown v. Commonwealth · 100 Cal. App. 639 - People v. Steele · 20 Ala. App. 392 - Goodman v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The extent of the property damaged or the number of people injured or killed does not constitute an element of the offense. It is the flight from the scene, and the failure to give the information required to the person in charge of the property damaged or succor to the injured which constitute the completed offense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Judge Kelly, in Brown v. Commonwealth, 130 Va. 733 , 107 S. E. 809, 810 , 16 A. L. R. 1039, quoting Minor’s Synopsis Crim. Law, p. 11, says: ‘A principal in the second degree is one not the perpetrator, but present, aiding and abetting the act done, or keeping watch or guard at some convenient distance. * * * Every person who is present at the commission of a trespass, encouraging or inciting the same by words, gestures, looks, or signs, or who in any way, or by any means, countenances or approves the same is, in law, assumed to be an aider and abettor, and is hable as principal.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“None of the crimes charged is manslaughter. The offense is the failure to stop the automobile involved at the scene of the accidents, to furnish the information required and to render assistance to the parties injured. This statutory offense is a felony. The acts constituting the offense do not commence until after the injury or damages has been inflicted.”
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.