24 Va. App. 30 - McBride v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 42 Va. App. 739 - Seaton v. Commonwealth (2004), McMillan v. Com. (2009)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Ellett · 18 Va. App. 746 - James v. Commonwealth · Waterfront Marine Construction, Inc. v. North End 49ers Sandbridge Bulkhead Groups A, B and C · Dowdy 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] court speaks through its orders and those orders are presumed to accurately reflect what transpired”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]rior convictions may be proved by any competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMillan 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.