28 Va. App. 340 - Dillard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · 20 Va. App. 484 - Mayhew v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Stoffan · Keesee v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 378 - Sutherland v. Commonwealth
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a trial court need not intone the words ‘judicial notice’ in order to notice a fact, the evidence, the arguments of the parties and the statements of the trial court must demonstrate clearly that the trial court has taken judicial notice of [a] fact before a party may rely upon such notice on appeal.””
2 later decisions 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.