George v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992), Mueller v. Commonwealth (1992)
10 federal appellate · 106 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · Wainwright v. Witt · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Dobbert v. Florida
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a killing which takes place before, during, or after the robbery and is so closely related thereto in time, place, and causal connection as to make the killing part of the same criminal enterprise as the robbery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Robbery, a common-law offense, is defined as `the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jay v. Com. · Williams v. Com.“The victim, fifteen-year-old Alexander Eugene Sztanko, lived with his parents in the City of Manassas. The family recently had moved from a home on Cardinal Drive in Woodbridge, and on Saturday, June 16, 1990, Alex and his parents went to the Woodbridge house to move “out all of the things [they had left] there.” After arriving at the Cardinal Drive address, Alex decided to ride his motorcycle along a power line easement that crossed his parents’ property and extended into a nearby wooded area traversed by a number of trails. Mr. and Mrs. Sztanko last saw Alex alive about 2:00 p.m., when he rode into the woods. “[M]aybe half an hour [or] an hour” later, Alex’s father heard “two shots coming from the [wooded] area.” About 10:45 a.m. the next day, Corporal Joseph Dillon of the Prince William County Police Department, who was aware that Alex Sztanko was missing, observed a silver and blue Ford Bronco parked off the side of Cardinal Drive near the woods into which Alex had ridden. Dillon had seen the vehicle parked in the same location about 3:30 p.m. the day before. Dillon pulled in behind the vehicle, “ran the tag” through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and learned that the Bronco was registered in the name of Michael George. Dillon then observed a “camouflage-clad subject” walking toward him from the south side of Cardinal Drive. The person started toward Dillon, and turned and ran eastwardly along the shoulder of Cardinal Drive, and entered the woods. When about ten feet i”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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