Jimenez v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth (1997), 14 Va. App. 988 - Campbell v. Commonwealth (1992)
110 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 Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Prejean v. Blackburn · Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Quintana v. Commonwealth · Fisher 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a principle of law is vital to a defendant in a criminal case, a trial court has an affirmative duty properly to instruct a jury about the matter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fail[ed] to return such advance within fifteen days of a request to do so.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A criminal statute, such as Code § 18.2-200.1,- must be strictly construed. We think it clear that the General Assembly meant what it said, i.e., that a person accused of violating the statute cannot be convicted unless the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt, inter alia, that the accused “fail[ed] to return [the] advance within fifteen days of a request to do so,” and that the request was “sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.””
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.