Ashley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Frye v. Commonwealth (1986), 14 Va. App. 454 - Hooker v. Commonwealth (1992)
28 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 Neeley v. Johnson · "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Coley & Petersen, Inc. · Boone 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compiled in the regular course of employment as a security director, both from inventory taken and maintained by other employees in the regular course of business and from his own personal calculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDowell v. Com.“was based upon business records that [the security director] did not maintain, rather than upon his personal observation, and was not admissible under the modern Shopbook Rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDowell v. Com.“is whether the documents sought to be introduced are the type of records which are relied upon by those who prepare them or for whom they are prepared.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDowell 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.