Schaaf v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably De Nardo v. State (1991), 18 Va. App. 242 - Richards v. Commonwealth (1994)
26 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 Sutherland 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute was to interdict the practice of carrying a deadly weapon about the person, concealed, and yet so accessible as to afford prompt and immediate use. ‘About the person’ must mean that it is so connected with the person as to be readily accessible for use or surprise if desired.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile Sutherland can be distinguished from this case on the facts, to the extent that there may be a conflict Sutherland is overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pruitt v. Com.“near and about the carrier's person, hidden from common observation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Com.
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.