Herron v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Cartera v. Commonwealth (1978), Moore v. Commonwealth (1981)
29 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 Pepoon v. Commonwealth · Waitt v. Commonwealth · Lear v. Commonwealth · Locke v. Commonwealth · Stump 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any prosecution for criminal sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et. seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2 ..., the fact that the person injured made complaint of the offense recently after commission of the offense is admissible, not as independent evidence of the offense, but for the purpose of corroborating the testimony of the complaining witness.”
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.