Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Bradshaw v. Commonwealth (1984), 23 Va. App. 38 - Burfoot v. Commonwealth (1996)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Blackledge v. Perry · Serfass v. United States · Webb v. Commonwealth · Rosser v. Commonwealth · Benson 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section 19.1-163.1] deals by its very language only with a person who is "arrested," meaning, within this context, a person who is detained in custody by authority of law or one who is under a legal restraint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he primary purpose of a preliminary hearing is to ascertain whether there is reasonable ground to believe that a crime has been committed and the person charged is the one who has committed it[]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere dismissal of a felony warrant at a preliminary hearing ... does not preclude subsequent indictment of defendant on the same charges”
3 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.