Commonwealth v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Deaner v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Rafferty · 15 Va. App. 148 - Breeden v. Commonwealth · Furrow v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · City of Hopewell v. County of Prince George
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reasonableness of the Commonwealth’s explanation is determined from a review of all the facts, and courts must subject these facts to particular scrutiny when “office procedures” are cited in support of an assertion that one test was unavailable at the time of defendant’s arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conceded at trial that [the officer] had probable cause to arrest him for driving under the influence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kim v. Commonwealth
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.