27 Va. App. 304 - Forbes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2021
14 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 King v. Commonwealth · 9 Va. App. 272 - Keech v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 267 - Tubman v. Commonwealth · Hankerson v. Moody · Town of Big Stone Gap v. Johnson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`only become questions of law to be determined by [an appellate] court [rather than by the factfinder], when reasonable minds could not differ,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knew [n]or should have known that his conduct created a great risk reasonably calculated to produce injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the application of the distinctions between the[] degrees of negligence is frequently difficult to apply,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.