19 Va. App. 548 - Sprouse v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
17 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 Johnson v. Commonwealth · Holloman v. Commonwealth · Yarborough 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the accused "possessed" an object; (2) that this object was a "pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm"; (3) that the accused "used or attempted to use the firearm or displayed the firearm in a threatening manner"; and (4) this action involving the firearm occurred during the commission or attempt to commit one of the felonies enumerated in the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“cause the victim to reasonably believe it was a firearm was, in fact, a firearm,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not only is aimed at preventing actual physical injury or death but also is designed to discourage criminal conduct that produces fear of physical harm.”
2 later decisions 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.