Ryan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth (1987), 4 Va. App. 433 - Mounce v. Commonwealth (1987)
54 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 Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Sullivan v. Virginia · Ashby v. Commonwealth · Gibson 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other offenses is admissible if it shows the conduct and feeling of the defendant toward his alleged victim, if it establishes prior relations between the parties, or if it tends to prove any relevant element of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ourts may take judicial notice of generally known or easily ascertainable facts”
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.