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← 274 Va. 276 - Baldwin v. Com.

Baldwin v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Riner v. Com. · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Burns v. Commonwealth · Burns v. Com. · 20 Va. App. 562 - Haywood 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In accordance with familiar principles of appellate review, the facts will be stated in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party at trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “We also accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all inferences fairly deducible from the evidence.”
    2 later decisions 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.