Asbury v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Stockton v. Commonwealth (1984), Beavers v. Commonwealth (1993)
51 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 Crowell v. Duncan · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Coffey v. Commonwealth · Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Ward's Administrator · Evans v. City of Richmond
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule in Virginia is well established that a judgment will not be reversed for the admission of evidence which the court afterwards directs the jury to disregard unless there is a manifest probability that the evidence has been prejudicial to the adverse party. The exception to this rule is that the admission of incompetent evidence is reversible error notwithstanding the fact that the trial court, after its admission, instructed the jury to disregard it, if such illegal evidence was so impressive that it probably remained on the minds of the jury and influenced their verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule in Virginia is well established that a judgment will not be reversed for the admission of evidence which the court afterwards directs the jury to disregard unless there is a manifest probability that the evidence has been prejudicial to the adverse party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“refusal to grant instructions covering principles of law upon which the jury has already been properly instructed is not error.”
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.