Reid v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2011
14 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Brogdon v. Louisiana · Daughtry v. United States · Erickson v. Illinois · Unisys Corp. v. Pickering
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refers to evidence concerning aggravating factors, which, he contends, establishes that the trial court considered evidence favorable to Reid only in terms of whether it negated the existence of an aggravating factor. 59 On direct appeal, Reid argued that the trial court must not have considered evidence regarding his medical conditions and his intoxication at the time of the offense, because if it had, it would have determined that the murder was not vile and that Reid therefore could not be sentenced to death. The Virginia Supreme Court rejected this claim, determining”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. True I“We consider the evidence and all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crawford v. Com.“complaint that the trial court must not have considered [Reid's] mitigating evidence since the court imposed the death penalty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. True I
How this case has been treated — in progress
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