18 Va. App. 77 - Hart v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 33 Va. App. 8 - Moyer v. Commonwealth (2000), 41 Va. App. 170 - M.G. v. Albemarle County Department of Social Services (2003)
25 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 Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. · Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation · Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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.
“Every person who intentionally makes an obscene display or exposure of his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where others are present, or procures another to so expose himself, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.