Yarborough v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 39 Va. App. 562 - Gaines v. Commonwealth (2003), Courtney v. Com. (2011)
51 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 Engle v. Isaac · Webster v. Reproductive Health Services · Fisher v. Commonwealth · Bunch v. Commonwealth · Waye 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.
“the Commonwealth must prove that the accused actually had a firearm in his possession and that he used or attempted to use the firearm or displayed the firearm in a threatening manner while committing or attempting to commit robbery or one of the other specified felonies.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“this is a stickup; give me all your money.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]he saw `something protruding . . . from [defendant's] right hand pocket of his jacket,' and she `thought [there] was a gun in his pocket.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.