2 Va. App. 231 - Crumble v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 4 Va. App. 53 - Williams v. Commonwealth (1987), 26 Va. App. 335 - Watkins v. Commonwealth (1998)
30 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 Clozza v. Commonwealth · Evans v. Commonwealth · Randolph v. Commonwealth · Gooden v. Commonwealth · Braxton 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If from the improbability of his story and his manner of relating it, or from its contradictions within itself, or by the attending facts and circumstances, the jury are convinced that he is not speaking the truth, they may reject his testimony, even though his reputation for truth is not attacked and he is not contradicted by other witnesses.”
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.