Clifford v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clinebell v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Shifflett · West v. Commonwealth · 30 Va. App. 322 - McLean v. Commonwealth · 48 Va. App. 499 - Clifford 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court may not `recast' an argument made in a lower court into a different argument upon which to base its decision....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nly those arguments presented in the petition for appeal and granted by this Court will be considered on appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. Brown · Moore v. Com.“we will not consider ... arguments [that] were not made in the petition for appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. Brown
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.