22 Va. App. 378 - Bottoms v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2021
18 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 Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth · Turner v. SHELDON D. WEXLER, DPM · 5 Va. App. 468 - Harward 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial judges are required to rule on issues as they develop at trial. If the development of the case requires reversal of an earlier ruling, it is the trial judge’s duty to order that reversal____ “A trial court is empowered to change a legal determination as long as it retains jurisdiction over the proceedings before it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.