23 Va. App. 173 - Mejia v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 29 Va. App. 228 - COM., DEPT. OF MOTOR VEHICLES v. Wallace (1999), 28 Va. App. 579 - Herrel v. Commonwealth (1998)
32 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Scherl v. Fisher · Brown v. Lukhard · 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the application and enforcement of the criminal law is at issue, any ambiguity shall be resolved against the Commonwealth and in favor of the accused”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.