Turner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 18 Va. App. 840 - Woolfolk v. Commonwealth (1994), Commonwealth v. Zamani (1998)
188 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 Tiller v. Commonwealth · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Virginian Railway Co. · Lenwood Board v. City of Roanoke
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plain, obvious, and rational meaning of a statute is always to be preferred to any curious, narrow, or strained construction.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“a word takes color and expression from the purport of the entire phrase of which it is a part, and ... must be read in harmony with its context.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the word 'conduct' connotes leadership and control. It contemplates the person in charge. It in no way suggests the role of a mere employee, participant, or helper.”
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.