Bryant v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Buchanan v. Commonwealth (1989), 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth (1991)
46 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 Dawkins v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Harris v. Commonwealth · King 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[b]odily injury comprehends, it would seem, any bodily hurt whatsoever.' " Bryant v. Commonwealth, 189 Va. 310 , 316, 53 S.E.2d 54 , 57 (1949)(citation omitted) (defining "bodily injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test of the offense of maliciously or unlawfully causing bodily injury is the intent with which the result is accomplished rather than the nature of the means, where the means are specified and established. Thus, one may permanently maim, disfigure, disable or kill with the fists, or knees, if the force is applied with violence and brutality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“admit that the specific rulings and the grounds of objection thereto were not made a part of the record. Under these circumstances, we cannot consider them, as we must pass upon the record duly authenticated by the trial judge, and not upon counsel's recollection of what occurred.”
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.