Shivaee v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Van Grinsven v. G.R.H. (2006), Crawford v. Com. (2011)
3 federal appellate · 75 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Addington v. Texas · Kansas v. Hendricks · Kansas v. Crane · Mark Seling Superintendent Special Commitment Center v. Andre Brigham Young
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) was criminal or civil. Relying on the decision in Hendricks , this Court held that the SVPA was civil. In reaching its conclusion, one of the factors the Court considered was the location of the SVPA within the Code of Virginia. The Court explained: The SVPA was codified by the General Assembly as a civil statute, as indicated by its placement in Title 37. Nothing in the SVPA”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re: Phillips · Smith v. Com.“Because the due process protections afforded under the Constitution of Virginia are co-extensive with those of the federal constitution, the same analysis will apply to both.” Shivaee v. Commonwealth, 270 Va. 112, 119 , 613 S.E.2d 570, 574 (2005).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In accordance with established principles of appellate review, we view the facts in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party below.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Com. · Crawford 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.