19 Va. App. 24 - Woodard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · State v. Hill · 88 Md. App. 306 - Harmony v. State · Fisher v. Commonwealth · Herron 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he “only time requirement is that the complaint have been made without a delay which is unexplained or is inconsistent with the occurrence of the offense.” The initial determination of timeliness under the recent complaint rule is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and thereafter, timeliness is a matter for the trier of fact to consider in weighing the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.