Rouzie v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2005
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Burford v. Commonwealth · Spradlin v. Commonwealth · Ashby v. Commonwealth · Miles 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When accused to be discharged, tried, committed or bailed by judge—The judge shall discharge the accused if he consider that there is not sufficient cause for charging him with the offense. “If a judge consider that there is sufficient cause only to charge the accused with an offense which the judge has jurisdiction to try, then he shall try the accused for such offense and convict him if he deem him guilty and pass judgment upon him in accordance with law just as if the accused had first been brought before him on a warrant charging him with such offense. “If a judge consider that there is sufficient cause to charge the accused with an offense that he does not have jurisdiction to try then he shall commit him to jail or let him to bail under § 19.1-109.2....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The double jeopardy clauses of die United States and Virginia Constitutions, as related to the present case, bar prosecution of a criminal charge against an accused already convicted of an identical or less»: included offense ... . Offenses are identical if the facts required to convict of one would necessarily convict of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Brew
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.