Com. v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is a common canon of statutory construction that when the legislature uses the same term in separate statutes, that term has the same meaning in each unless the General Assembly indicates to the contrary.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barson v. Com. · Jenkins v. Mehra

2. “Under the rule of statutory construction of statutes in pari materia, statutes are not to be considered as isolated fragments of law, but as a whole, or as parts of a great, connected homogeneous system, or a single and complete statutory arrangement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ricks v. Commonwealth

3. “[w]hile Code § 37.2-906(C) permits the consideration at a SVP probable cause hearing of `prior convictions or charges,' there is no statutory mandate that an unadjudicated charge must be taken as true for purposes of the hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. Garrett