Kingsbur v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “this Court reviews the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party at trial and consider[s] all inferences fairly deducible from that evidence. This Court will only reverse the judgment of the trial court if the judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it. If there is evidence to support the convictions, the reviewing court is not permitted to substitute its own judgment, even if its opinion might differ from the conclusions reached by the finder of fact at the trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kareem Donte Barlow v. Commonwealth of Virginia

2. “could have been repaired by the adjustment of the spring between the trigger and the hammer or by adjustment of the firing pin. As such, the rifle was clearly not in so serious a state of disrepair that it had lost its characteristic as an instrument designed, made, and intended to expel a projectile by means of an explosion. It is irrelevant that Armstrong may have lacked the requisite skill to effect the needed repair or that he might not have been able to render the rifle immediately operable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kareem Donte Barlow v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “an instrument originally designed, made, and intended to expel a projectile by force of an explosion can lose this characteristic in many ways such that it would no longer be fairly considered a firearm”) (internal quotation marks omitted); Sprouse v. Commonwealth, 2005 WL 283266 , , 2005 Va.App. LEXIS 59, (Va.Ct.App. Feb. 8, 2005) (stating that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re D.F.