2 Va. App. 734 - Albert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth (1997), 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese v. Commonwealth (1993)
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 Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · United States v. Chadwick · Jones v. Howard · Higginbotham 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`must evaluate the credibility of the witnesses, resolve the conflicts in their testimony and weigh the evidence as a whole.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judgment will not be reversed for the admission of evidence or for a statement of counsel which the court afterwards directs the jury to disregard unless there is a manifest probability that the evidence or statement has been prejudicial to the adverse party. A different rule would result in fixing an intolerable handicap upon the nisi prius court. Conversely, as an exception to the rule, if the prejudicial effect of the impropriety cannot be removed by the instructions of the trial court, the defendant is entitled to a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyer v. Schulman
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.