Commonwealth v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 47 Va. App. 687 - George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth · Potts v. Commonwealth · 46 Va. App. 161 - Epps 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny harm in this case was suffered by the court as an institution, not by [the judge] personally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Moseley
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.