20 Va. App. 206 - Bishop v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2010
20 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 Baker v. Marcus · Essex v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 351 - King v. Commonwealth · 11 Va. App. 61 - Foote v. Commonwealth · Spickard v. City of Lynchburg
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he distinction between negligent driving and reckless driving is the critical element in determining punishment under Code § 46.2-357.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If such driving, of itself, does endanger the life, limb, or property of another, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by confinement in the state correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than five years or, in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, by confinement in jail for twelve months____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has been consistent in stating that “ ‘[o]ne who knowingly drives [an] automobile on the highway under the influence of intoxicants, in violation of statute, is, of course, negligente,]’ ” [Essex, 228 Va. at 282 , 322 S.E.2d at 221 ] (quoting Baker v. Marcus, 201 Va. 905, 910 , 114 S.E.2d 617, 621 (1960))[,] [t]he Supreme Court [of Virginia] also has observed that “no case ... holds that one driving under the influence of an intoxicant must necessarily be driving recklessly.” Spickard v. City of Lynchburg, 174 Va. 502, 505 , 6 S.E.2d 610, 611 (1940). Thus, while evidence of intoxication is a factor that might bear upon proof of dangerous or reckless driving in a given case, it does not, of itself, prove reckless driving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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