Beck v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Johnson v. Commonwealth (2000), Cherrix v. Commonwealth (1999)
3 federal appellate · 108 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Henderson v. Brown · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Deboue v. Louisiana
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we do not substitute our judgment for that of the trial court. Rather, we consider only whether the record fairly supports the trial court's action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he statutes do not limit evidence of victim impact to that received from the victim’s family members. Rather, the circumstances of the individual ease will dictate what evidence will be necessary and relevant, and from what sources it may be drawn. In a capital murder trial, as in any other criminal proceeding, the determination of the admissibility of relevant evidence is within the sound discretion of the trial court subject to the test of abuse of that discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““[a] judge, unlike a juror, is uniquely suited by training, experience and judicial discipline to disregard potentially prejudicial comments and to separate, during the mental process of adjudication, the admissible from the inadmissible, even though he has heard both.” Eckhart v. Commonwealth, 222 Va. 213, 216 , 279 S.E.2d 155, 157 (1981). Consequently, we presume that a trial judge disregards prejudicial or inadmissible evidence. . . . “[T]his presumption will control in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.