Barber v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Echols v. State (1996), 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese v. Commonwealth (1993)
34 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 Ward v. Commonwealth · Hobson v. Youell · Bradshaw v. Commonwealth · Orange v. Commonwealth · Martin 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Jurors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in and for the body of the City of Danville, and now attending said Court at its January term, in the year, 1971, upon their oaths present that Willie L. Davis, on the 21st day of November, 1970, in said City, within one mile of the Corporate Limits of said City, did unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously kill and murder one Beulah Ann Davis, by shooting her against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If, therefore, any proposition of law can be considered as settled by decision and no longer open to debate” ... then the proposition that the short statutory form of indictment for murder includes the charge of murder in the first degree is now the established law in this Commonwealth....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It was within the sound discretion of the trial court to determine whether the use of the toy pistol for purposes of demonstration should be permitted. .. ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. State
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.