22 Va. App. 93 - Bell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2010
17 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 Hayes v. Lockhart · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Travaglia v. Pennsylvania · Enewetak v. United States · Turner 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he detention of the store’s occupants... who were not victims of tiie robbery, while the appellant robbed [the cashier], was separate and apart from the restraint inherent in the act of robbery. Forcing [the husband and customer] onto the floor was greater than the kind of restraint needed to rob [the cashier]. After the robbery was completed and the money received from [the cashier], appellant forced her onto the floor and demanded that she stay on the floor for five minutes, actions not inherent in or necessary for completion of tiie crime of robbery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the record in its entirety sets forth sufficient evidence from which a jury could reasonably infer that the abduction was `separate and apart from, and not merely incidental to' the crime of attempted rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury's finding of an abduction separate and apart from both the robbery and the sexual assault is not plainly wrong and is supported by the evidence.”
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.