27 Va. App. 381 - Dalton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2000
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Beck v. Alabama · Keeble v. United States · Frye v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 485 - Darnell v. Commonwealth · Barrett 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On an indictment for felony the jury may find the accused not guilty of the felony but guilty of an attempt to commit such felony, or of being an accessory thereto; and a general verdict of not guilty, upon such indictment, shall be a bar to a subsequent prosecution for an attempt to commit such felony, or of being an accessory thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of being an accessory after the fact.” Code § 19.2-254 (repl. vol.1960); see 1960 Va. Acts ch. 366. In 1975, the General Assembly modified this particular language to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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