Vick v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court may, for any cause deemed by it sufficient which occurred at any time within the probation period, or if none, within the period of suspension fixed by the court, . . . revoke the suspension of sentence and any probation, if the defendant be on probation, ... at any time within one year after the probation period, or if no probation period has been prescribed then within one year after the period of supension fixed by the court, . . . whereupon ... the original sentence shall be in full force and effect, . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cook v. Commonwealth

2. “Section 19-269 applies only to the serving of sentences to confinement in prison. An order granting probation is not a sentence to confinement. Indeed, it has exactly the opposite effect. A probation order stays, relieves, or prevents a person from confinement in prison. The language of the orders cannot be construed to mean that after the expiration of the one-year probation period there were other probation periods fixed to run consecutively for two, three and four years thereafter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 12 Va. App. 1257 - Wood v. Commonwealth