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← 271 Va. 558 - Welch v. Commonwealth

Welch v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Hudson · Dowden v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth · Ashby v. Commonwealth · Barrett v. Com.

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

  1. “[To prove cunnilingus, the Commonwealth must prove that there was penetration of any portion of the vulva by the mouth or tongue.”
    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.