Albert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Essex v. Commonwealth (1984), King v. Commonwealth (1977)
21 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 Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · The People v. Allen · Bell v. Commonwealth · Mundy v. Commonwealth · Goodman 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not asking too much that the burden of showing essential unfairness be sustained by him who claims such injustice and seeks to have the result set aside, and that it be sustained not as a matter of speculation but as a demonstrable reality-” (Quoted with approval in Albert v. Commonwealth, 181 Va. 894 , 27 S.E.2d 177 (1943).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, in the prosecution of some unlawful, but not felonious, act; or in the improper performance of a lawful act.”
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.