2 Va. App. 614 - Simms v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 53 Va. App. 561 - Clanton v. Commonwealth (2009), 10 Va. App. 563 - Stewart v. Commonwealth (1990)
32 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 United States v. Wade · United States v. Ash · Fitzgerald v. Virginia · Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth · Scott 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant is not entitled to an instruction on an offense for which he is not specifically charged, unless it is a necessarily included lesser offense thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an accused on trial for one offense is not entitled to have the jury instructed on an offense which is not included as a lesser offense of the one charged.”
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.