Simmons v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 25 Va. App. 434 - Highsmith v. Commonwealth (1997), 39 Va. App. 13 - Neff v. Commonwealth (2002)
2 district · 24 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 Bates v. Devers · Commonwealth v. Rafferty · Wright v. Wright
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he establishment of a prior judgment rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction is a condition precedent to the allowance of any plea in bar asserting [the doctrine of res judicata]. Yet, by no stretch of the imagination can it be said that an administrative suspension of an operator's license for failure to take a blood or breath test is a judgment rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction. What is involved is neither more nor less than the term administrative suspension implies, an administrative act, not a judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judgment in the former action [was] rendered on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision 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.