Poole v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1991
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Dejarnette v. Commonwealth · Roy v. Commonwealth · Simpson 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ [Although it is not the practice in Virginia for the court unasked to charge the jury upon the law of the case, yet the mere fact that it does so cannot of itself be assigned as error. [Citation omitted] The accused has certainly no just cause of complaint if the law is properly expounded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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