28 Va. App. 411 - Utz v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 145 Ohio App. 3d 555 - State v. Huff (2001), State v. Torres (2005)
33 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 United States v. Abel · Lewis v. Gober · 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley · 16 Cal. 4th 153 - People v. Williams · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a juror might associate a defendant with such an affiliation as a person of bad character or someone prone to aggressive or violent behavior”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A witness qualifies as an expert if “because of his skill, training, or experience^], he is better able to form a more accurate opinion as to the matter under consideration than is an ordinary person.” ... [Specialized formal training [i]s unnecessary, ... [and] experience alone [can] qualify one as an expert,.... [A]s long as the testimony is based upon information of the “type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field,” it would be proper to admit it.”
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.