Brush v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2004
12 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 Kyhl v. Commonwealth · Lutz v. City of Richmond · Fleming v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Clinchfield Railroad · Benson v. City of Norfolk
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of proof showing that the instrument used to withdraw defendant’s blood was sterilized pursuant to the requirements of § 18.1-55 (c) the Commonwealth has not met the burden imposed upon it, and the certificates setting forth the alcoholic content of defendant’s blood were not admissible.” 205 Va. at 316-17, 136 S.E.2d at 868 .”
1 later decision 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.