Commonwealth v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Esteban v. Commonwealth (2003), Zimmerman v. Commonwealth (2003)
49 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 LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Blondel v. Hays · Howard v. Commonwealth · Banner v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shot a gun aimed in [the victim’s] direction[,] [ ] continued firing the gun until all shells were spent and continued pulling the trigger after the gun was empty; and [the victim] was wounded by bullets from the gun, once in the foot or ankle and, in the course of turning and running from [the defendant], again in the back.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have held that the intent to put another in fear of bodily harm with a threat to use bodily force, such as brandishing a deadly weapon, is an assault.” 263 Va. at 35 , 557 S.E.2d at 222 (emphasis added). Thus, Vaughn supports the proposition that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When reviewing a trial court's refusal to give a proffered jury instruction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the proponent of the instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rose v. Jaques
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.