Cherrix v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Riner v. Com. (2004), Porter v. Com. (2008)
2 federal appellate · 75 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Bagley
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the defendant's character, prior record, or the circumstances of his offense.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“what a person may expect in the penal system is not relevant mitigation evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In assessing the penalty of any person convicted of an offense for which the death penalty may be imposed, a sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the court or jury shall . . . after consideration of the past criminal record of convictions of the defendant, find that there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing serious threat to society. . . . Code § 19.2-264.4(C) similarly provides: The penalty of death shall not be imposed unless the Commonwealth [proves] beyond a reasonable doubt that there is a probability based upon evidence of the prior history of the defendant or of the circumstances surrounding the commission of the offense of which he is accused that he would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing serious threat to society. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morva v. Com.
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.