Ansell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Armstrong v. Commonwealth (2002), Holloman v. Commonwealth (1980)
3 federal appellate · 128 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 Blitz v. Boog · Commonwealth v. Ellett · 102 Ga. App. 790 - Curtis v. State · State v. Carlson · Wesley 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon a second or subsequent conviction”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an unreasonably restrictive interpretation of the statute”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The 1976 Amendment [to Code § 18.2-53.1] restricted the application of the statute to the serious felonies therein enumerated rather than having it apply to all felonies. However, the severity of the punishment was significantly increased. Inflexible penalties replaced the wide range of discretionary penalties originally authorized; trial courts were prohibited from suspending the sentence, in whole or in part, or placing the offender on probation; and the punishment was required to run consecutively rather than concurrently with the punishment imposed for commission of the primary felony.”
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.