21 Va. App. 693 - Bell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 58 Va. App. 35 - Scott v. Commonwealth (2011), 57 Va. App. 495 - Ervin v. Commonwealth (2011)
37 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 Kolender v. Lawson · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · Alford v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[C]arjaeking” means the intentional seizure or seizure of control of a motor vehicle of another with intent to permanently or temporarily deprive another in possession or control of the vehicle of that possession or control by means of partial strangulation, or suffocation, or by striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by assault or otherwise putting a person in fear of serious bodily harm, or by the threat or presenting of firearms, or other deadly weapon or instrumentality whatsoever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law is well established that possession of the means to exercise dominion or control over an item gives the possessor dominion or control over the item itself. Thus, when the General Assembly enacted the carjacking statute to protect [a] person[ ] in “possession or control” of [a vehicle], we presume the legislature intended to include persons possessing the means of exercising dominion and control of the vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[W]here the General Assembly acts in an area in which this Court has already spoken, it is presumed to know the law as the Court has stated it and to acquiesce therein.'”
1 later decision 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.