22 Va. App. 424 - Elmore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2019
19 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 Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Powell · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · United States v. Maybury
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An out-of-court statement by the defendant that admits or acknowledges a fact or facts tending to prove guilt is admissible in evidence against the defendant____Thus, the evidence in this case, unlike the evidence in Yarborough, consists of more than the victim’s mere belief or perception that the defendant had a gun. Here, the defendant’s out-of-court statement admitted the existence of a “gun”----The only evidence that refutes the defendant’s admission that he possessed a firearm is his general denial, which the trial court rejected. The record reveals that the defendant gave [the victim] a note stating that he had a “gun,” pointed to his pocket and said that he did not want to hurt anyone. This evidence is sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant actually possessed a firearm and used it in a threatening maimer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Martin v. Commonwealth, 4 Va.App. 438, 443 , 358 S.E.2d 415, 418 (1987). Moreover,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“more than the victim's mere belief or perception that the defendant had a gun”
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.