Robinson v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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

1. “`must not add to the words of the statute, nor ignore its actual words, and must strictly construe the statute and limit its application to cases falling clearly within its scope.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sadler v. Com. · Phelps v. Com.

2. “The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident in which a person is killed or injured or in which an attended vehicle ... is damaged shall immediately stop as close to the scene of the accident as possible without obstructing traffic ... and report his name, address, driver's license number, and vehicle registration number forthwith to the State Police or local law-enforcement agency, to the person struck and injured if such person appears to be capable of understanding and retaining the information, or to the driver or some other occupant of the vehicle collided with or to the custodian of other damaged property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 68 Va. App. 11 - Bryan Dunnington Cocke v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “Any person convicted of a violation of this section is guilty of (i) a Class 5 felony if the accident results in injury to or the death of any person, or if the accident results in more than $1000 of damage to property or (ii) a Class 1 misdemeanor if the accident results in damage of $1000 or less to property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 68 Va. App. 11 - Bryan Dunnington Cocke v. Commonwealth of Virginia