Roberson v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The notice of appeal filed by Ghameshlouy identified the conviction which he sought to appeal by its docket number in the circuit court, and by further indicating that it was an appeal from a “final judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach, rendered ... on July 24, 2007” in which Ghameshlouy was convicted of “the charge of refusing to provide identification to a police officer, a violation of [the] Virginia Beach municipal code.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 61 Va. App. 339 - Jack Stanley Evans, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

2. “On its face, the notice of appeal appears to be what Roberson has ... maintained it was, i.e. a notice of appeal for a DUI conviction obtained by the Commonwealth pursuant to Code § 18.2-266. Given the absence of information sufficient to identify the offense being appealed as a conviction under the local ordinance ..., the notice of appeal failed to satisfy the minimum requirement to confer jurisdiction over the case to the Court of Appeals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 61 Va. App. 339 - Jack Stanley Evans, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia