Waldrop v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dalton (2000), 51 Va. App. 26 - De'Armond v. Commonwealth (2007)
29 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 United States v. Lacher · Martin v. Commonwealth · Harward v. Commonwealth · Holz v. Commonwealth · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Major
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the goal of [the] recodification is a clearer, more easily understood set of election laws and the elimination of ambiguities in the present law rather than substantive changes in the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing in the Recodified Act suggests an intent to make substantive changes in the Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“entitled to the benefit of any reasonable doubt concerning the statute's construction.”
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.