Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 38 Va. App. 375 - Wactor v. Commonwealth (2002), Bradley v. Commonwealth (1955)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Mings v. Commonwealth · Addington v. Commonwealth · Stump v. Commonwealth · Jordan v. Commonwealth · Gray 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the law two types of force, active and constructive, are recognized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Com.“all the force which the law demands as an element of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Com.
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.