Thomas v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he law is well settled in Virginia that each co-actor is responsible for the act of the others.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vasquez v. Commonwealth · Hilton v. Commonwealth

2. “give deference to the trial court’s determination whether to exclude a prospective juror, because the trial court was able to see and hear each member of the venire respond to the questions posed. Thus, the trial court is in a superior position to determine whether a juror’s responses during voir dire indicate that the juror would be prevented or impaired in performing the duties of a juror as required by the court’s instructions and the juror’s oath.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Manneh Vay v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “The Sixth Amendment does not require the trial court to permit impeachment with juvenile adjudications unless they can be used to establish bias, not merely to challenge general credibility.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. People v. Corson