Perry v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
108 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chimel v. California · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Bolden v. Com.
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'This Court may uphold a judgment even when the correct reasoning is not mentioned by a party in trial argument or by the trial court in its decision, as long as the record contains sufficient information to support the proper reason.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[f]ailure to make the argument before the trial court is not the proper focus of the right result for the wrong reason doctrine.’ ” Banks v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 612, 617 , 701 S.E.2d 437, 440 (2010) (quoting Perry v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 572, 580 , 701 S.E.2d 431, 436 (2010)). Instead,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is the settled rule that how[ever] erroneous ... may be the reasons of the court for its judgment upon the face of the judgment itself, if the judgment be right, it will not be disturbed on account of the reasons.”
3 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.