Schneider v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 20 Va. App. 133 - Sandoval v. Commonwealth (1995), 26 Va. App. 335 - Watkins v. Commonwealth (1998)
71 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 Sorrells v. United States · Coppola v. Commonwealth · Stanley v. Zant · Evans v. Commonwealth · Stamper 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he credibility of witnesses and the weight accorded their testimony are matters solely for the fact finder who has the opportunity of seeing and hearing the witnesses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual findings are entitled to the same weight as that accorded a jury verdict and will not be disturbed on appeal unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.