Brickhouse v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2013
19 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Snowden v. Hughes · Rufus Martin v. State of Texas · James Tarrance v. State of Florida · Maxwell v. Stephens
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in the language of the statute to support the argument of counsel for the defendant that the presence of the witness in the courtroom, in disobedience of the order of exclusion, disqualified such witness from testifying. On the contrary, it is generally held that it is within the sound discretion of the trial court to permit the testimony of a witness who has violated an order directing his exclusion from the courtroom. (Citing a number of cases and texts.) Brickhouse v. Commonwealth, 208 Va. 533, 537 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Incidence of the Death Penalty for Rape in Virginia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fogg v. Commonwealth
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.