Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (2003), Johnson v. Commonwealth (2000)
45 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 Sullivan v. Virginia · Powers v. Commonwealth · Ashby v. Commonwealth · Cameron v. Commonwealth · McCall 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear from the evidence that when she referred to her `vagina,' she was describing the external part of that portion of her anatomy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“burden ... to prove every essential element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[P]enetration of any portion of the vulva, which encompasses the external parts of the female sex organs considered as a whole and includes, beginning with the outermost parts, the labia majora, labia minora, hymen, vaginal opening and vagina ... is sufficient to establish the element of penetration."”
2 later decisions 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.