Saunders v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Milton v. Texas · 3 Va. App. 523 - Bridgeman v. Commonwealth · Briley 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e hold that the court did not commit reversible error in refusing to give appellant's proposed robbery instruction or an instruction embodying the lesser-included offense of larceny from the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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