19 Va. App. 563 - Brooks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2010
12 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 14 Va. App. 836 - Branch v. Commonwealth · 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 351 - King v. Commonwealth · 17 Va. App. 624 - Commonwealth v. Meadows
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Well established “principles of statutory construction require us to ascertain and give effect to the legislative intent.” “Where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, we are bound by that plain statement....” “[W]ords and phrases used in a statute should be given their ordinary and usually accepted meaning unless a different intention is fairly manifest.” “Criminal statutes are to be ‘strictly construed against the Commonwealth and in favor of [a] citizen’s liberty.’ ... A penal statute must be construed so as to proscribe only conduct which the legislature clearly intended to be within the statute’s ambit.””
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.