21 Va. App. 519 - Gilliam v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 31 Va. App. 233 - Rasmussen v. Commonwealth (1999), 46 Va. App. 637 - Auer v. Commonwealth (2005)
2 federal appellate · 69 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Brewer v. United States · Nagac v. Derwinski · Marquez v. Texas
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At such proceeding, the Commonwealth shall present the defendant’s prior criminal convictions by certified, attested or exemplified copies of the record of conviction____ The Commonwealth shall provide to the defendant fourteen days prior to trial notice of its intention to introduce evidence of the defendant’s prior criminal convictions. Such notice shall include (i) the date of each prior conviction, (ii) the name and jurisdiction of the court where each prior conviction was had, and (in) each offense of which he was convicted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he prior criminal convictions of a felon, including previous efforts to punish and rehabilitate,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The province of [statutory] construction lies wholly within the domain of ambiguity, and that which is plain needs no interpretation.” Winston v. City of Richmond, 196 Va. 403, 408 , 83 S.E.2d 728, 731 (1954). See Harrison & Bates, Inc. v. Featherstone Assocs. Ltd. Partnership, 253 Va. 364, 368 , 484 S.E.2d 883, 885 (1997). “Words are ambiguous if they admit to ‘being understood in more than one way[,]’ ... refer to ‘two or more things simultaneously[,]’ ... are ‘difficult to comprehend,’ ‘of doubtful import,’ or lack ‘clearness and definiteness.’ ” Diggs v. Commonwealth, 6 Va. App. 300, 301-02 , 369 S.E.2d 199, 200 (1988) (en banc ) (citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.