Boyd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Horner v. Department of Mental Health (2004), 58 Va. App. 35 - Scott v. Commonwealth (2011)
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 City of Richmond v. Sutherland
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, we hold that the amendments to the act pertinent to this litigation were changes of form, which merely- interpreted the 1973 act and made it more detailed and specific. They were not changes of substance, which add rights to, or withdraw existing rights from an original act. . . . When amendments are enacted soon after controversies arise "as to the interpretation of the original act, it is logical to regard the amendment as a legislative interpretation of the original act—a formal change—rebutting the presumption of a substantial change."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a presumption normally arises that a change in law was intended when new provisions are added to prior legislation by an amendatory act”
2 later decisions 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.