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← 262 Va. 333 - Remington v. Commonwealth

Remington v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
November 2015
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Soberon v. United States · Kentucky v. Stincer · United States v. Gagnon

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of [a] person . . . in the commission . . . of an act of terrorism.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “where two or more persons take a direct part in inflicting fatal injuries, each joint participant is an `immediate perpetrator,'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “jointly participated in the fatal stabbing.”
    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.