Cumbee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth (1987), Moore v. Commonwealth (1981)
26 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 Rodriguez v. New York · United States v. Kobli · People v. Jelke · Geise v. United States · Brown 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not limited or restricted to any particular class of the community, but is open to the free observation of all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he probative value, if any, of ... evidence ... is far outweighed by the prejudicial nature of such evidence,”
1 later decision 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.