Webb v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Waye v. Commonwealth (1979), Cartera v. Commonwealth (1978)
3 federal appellate · 147 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 Pine v. Commonwealth · LaPrade v. Commonwealth · Jackson v. State · Toler v. Commonwealth · Smith 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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * The inferences to be drawn from proved facts are within the province of the jury, or the court trying the case without a jury, so long as the inferences are reasonable and justified.” Webb v. Commonwealth, 204 Va. 24, 34 , 129 S.E.2d 22, 29 .”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o person who is arrested on a charge of felony shall be denied a preliminary hearing.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile an expert witness may be permitted to express his opinion relative to the existence or nonexistence of facts not within common knowledge, he cannot give his opinion upon the precise or ultimate fact in issue, which must be left to the jury or the court trying the case without a jury for determination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.