Green v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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

1. “it is the nature of the method employed to seek relief from a criminal conviction and the circumstances under which the method is employed that determine whether an appeal is civil or criminal in nature. If the method consists of an appeal from the conviction itself or from action on motions filed and disposed of while the trial court retains jurisdiction over the case, the appeal is criminal in nature.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 60 Va. App. 213 - Daily Press, Inc. v. Commonwealth

2. “the court may, for any cause deemed by it sufficient which occurred at any time within the probation period ... revoke the suspension of sentence and any probation, if the defendant be on probation, and cause the defendant to be arrested and brought before the court at any time within one year after the probation period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 48 Va. App. 660 - Pierce v. Commonwealth

3. “[a]lthough a probation revocation hearing is not a stage of a criminal prosecution, and thus does not afford a convict all rights attending a criminal prosecution, such revocation hearing is nevertheless a criminal proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jaccard v. Commonwealth