20 Va. App. 510 - Cook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Evans · Duffy v. Hartsock · State v. Fair Lawn Service Center, Inc. · 3 Va. App. 531 - Crews v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 73 - Brushy Ridge Coal Co., Inc. v. Blevins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] crime is made up of two parts, forbidden conduct and a prescribed penalty. The former without the latter is no crime." Criminal penalties "should be provided with that degree of clarity that characterizes all criminal law, to the end that its application must not be left to conjecture." If a criminal statute or ordinance does not specify a penalty, it is beyond our province to prescribe one on the assumption that the deficiency was simply an "oversight." "Defining crimes and fixing penalties are legislative, not judicial, functions."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should be provided with that degree of clarity that characterizes all criminal law, to the end that its application must not be left to conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] crime is made up of two parts, forbidden conduct and a prescribed penalty.”
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.