20 Va. App. 547 - Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014
18 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 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth · Jimenez v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 524 - Martin v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 988 - Campbell v. Commonwealth · Campbell 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Formal exceptions to rulings or orders of the court shall be unnecessary; but for all purposes for which an exception has heretofore been necessary, it shall be sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling or order of the court is made or sought, makes known to the court the action which he desires the court to take or his objections to the action of the court and his grounds therefor____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At Johnson's sentencing hearing, defense counsel made a motion to set aside the verdict . The trial judge denied the motion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial judge's 'imperative duty [to properly instruct the jury] ... is one which can neither be evaded nor surrendered.'”
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.