Jay v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Britt v. Com. (2008), 52 Va. App. 833 - Fadness v. Fadness (2008)
111 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hudson · Riner v. Com. · Jenkins v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 53 - Buchanan v. Buchanan · George 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party in the circuit court, and we accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all reasonable inferences deducible from the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riley v. Com. · Noakes v. Com.“should ... consider whether any failure to strictly adhere to the requirements of Rule 5A:20(e) is insignificant, thus allowing the court to address the merits of a question presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he principles of law, the argument, and the authorities relating to each question presented”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.