Harrell v. Woodson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990), 44 Va. App. 741 - Thomas v. Commonwealth (2005)
40 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 First Investment Annuity Co. of America v. Miller · Virginia Real Estate Commission v. Bias · Ted Lansing Supply Co. v. Royal Aluminum & Construction Corp. · Lane v. Scott · Simon 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every fact, however remote or insignificant, that tends to establish the probability or improbability of a fact in issue, is relevant, and if otherwise admissible, should be admitted.”
3 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.