27 Va. App. 442 - Ricks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2007
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 14 Va. App. 836 - Branch v. Commonwealth · 18 Va. App. 242 - Richards 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the language of the statute does not provide that the purpose for carrying the knife is relevant. Rather, the physical characteristics of the knife determine whether the knife is a weapon contemplated by the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“about his person, hidden from common observation . . . any dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, ballistic knife, machete, razor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farrakhan v. Com.“any weapon of like kind as those enumerated in this subsection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farrakhan v. Com.
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.