Waller v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is a well-settled principle of law that where two statutes are in apparent conflict they should be so construed, if reasonably possible, so as to allow both to stand and to give force and effect to each. It is the object of the courts to construe all statutes in pari materia in such manner as to reconcile, if possible, any discordant feature which may exist, and make the body of the laws harmonious and just in their operation.”

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

2. “Code § 18.2-308.2(A), under which [Preston] was indicted, covers both an offense committed by a person previously convicted of a violent felony and an offense committed by a person previously convicted of `any other felony.'”

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

3. “this disposition is consistent with Code § 19.2-185....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 56 Va. App. 50 - Hunter v. Commonwealth