20 Va. App. 484 - Mayhew v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 29 Va. App. 240 - Acey v. Commonwealth (1999), 46 Va. App. 637 - Auer v. Commonwealth (2005)
57 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Jones v. Conwell · 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Board of County Supervisors · State v. Ingram
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the wording of the exception and its role in relation to the other words in the statute; whether in light of the situation prompting legislative action, the exception is essential to complete the [7] general prohibition intended; whether the exception makes an excuse or justification for what would otherwise be criminal conduct, i.e., sets forth an affirmative defense; and whether the matter is peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendant.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Where a particular construction of a statute will result in an absurdity, some other reasonable construction which will not produce the absurdity will be found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“finds its justification from the lessons of common experience that possession of firearms by felons presents a high risk of harm to others”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.