Huggins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably State v. Cummings (2000), Stockton v. Commonwealth (1991)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 38 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 Furman v. Georgia · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson · Hodges v. Commonwealth · Snider v. Cox
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Virginia, when the court sits without a jury, the trial judge both tries the issue of guilt and fixes the penalty; when the accused demands a jury, the jury performs both functions. Code §§ 19.1-192, -291 and -292. The right to have the jury perform both functions is a part of the right of trial by jury. “We do not decide the extent of our authority under Article VI, § 6 of the Virginia Constitution and Code § 19.1-288 to modify a judgment order entered upon a sentence fixed by the trial judge or a jury. We merely conclude that this case should be and it is remanded for a new trial on the issue of punishment. This accords with the procedure we approved in Snider v. Cox, 212 Va. 13 , 181 S.E.2d 617 (1971) and Hodges v. Commonwealth, 213 Va. 316 , 191 S.E.2d 794 , this day decided.” (191 S.E.2d at 736)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the physical evidence admitted and marked as exhibits in the first trial may be considered, so much of the transcript of the testimony and proceedings in the first trial as may be necessary to show the nature of the offense charged and the circumstances under which it was committed may be read in open court, and such additional evidence as may be competent and relevant to the issue of punishment may be adduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 18.1-22 of the Code provides: “ ‘Murder of the first degree shall be punished with death, or by confinement in the penitentiary for life, or for any term not less than twenty years.’ ” Huggins v. Commonwealth, 213 Va. 327 , 191 S.E.2d 734, 735 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swain v. State
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.