25 Va. App. 95 - Weaver v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2004
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Oregon v. Kennedy · Bauder v. State · Albemarle County v. Marshall, Clerk · Burns v. Board of Sup'rs of Stafford County · Blythe 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Common law. As distinguished from law created by the enactment of legislatures, the common law comprises the body of those principles and rules of action, relating to the government and security of persons and property, which derive their authority solely from usages and customs of immemorial antiquity, or from the judgments and decrees of the courts....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crump v. Forbes
How this case has been treated — in progress
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