2 Va. App. 265 - Ramsey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth (1991), 7 Va. App. 292 - Cirios v. Commonwealth (1988)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Blockburger v. United States · Whalen v. United States · Commonwealth National Bank v. Ashe · Ohio v. Gallagher · United States v. Peterson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] principal in the second degree is equally accountable and is subject to the same punishment as the actual perpetrator,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“present, aiding and abetting, by helping some way in the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. Com.
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.