Sizemore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Jay v. Com. (2008), 32 Va. App. 576 - Parsons v. Commonwealth (2000)
39 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 Stokes v. State · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Hargrave v. Commonwealth · Epps v. Commonwealth · Granberry 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question of what constitutes an attempt is often intricate and difficult to determine, and ... no general rule can be laid down which will serve as a test in all cases. Each case must be determined on its own facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n attempt is composed of two elements: the intention to commit the crime, and the doing of some direct act towards [sic] its consummation which is more than mere preparation but falls short of execution of the ultimate purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [t]he intent to commit a crime; and (2) a direct act done towards its commission, but falling short of the execution of the ultimate design.”
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.