28 Va. App. 306 - Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Nelson v. WARDEN OF KEEN MTN. CORRECTIONAL (2001)
79 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 Gault · Kent v. United States · Peyton v. French · 22 Va. App. 767 - Karim v. Commonwealth · Monument Associates v. Arlington County Board
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After a petition has been filed, the court shall direct the issuance of summonses, one directed to the child, if the child is twelve or more years of age, and another to the parents, guardian, legal custodian or other person standing in loco parentis, and other such persons as appear to the court to be proper.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A plain reading of Code §§ 16.1-263 and 16.1-264 manifests legislative intent that both parents be notified and dispenses with this requirement only when the trial judge has certified on the record that the identity of a parent is not reasonably ascertainable. The trial judge made no such certification on this record. Indeed, the record contains no evidence that any attempt was made by the trial judge or the Commonwealth to ascertain the address of the biological father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the notice of the initiation of juvenile court proceedings was not properly served [on the juvenile's biological father as required by the then applicable version of Code § 16.1-263], the transfer of jurisdiction was ineffectual and the subsequent convictions [of the juvenile in the circuit court] are void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.