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← 280 Va. 620 - McGhee v. Com.

McGhee v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

36 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Arizona v. Gant · United States v. Johnson · Thornton v. United States · Air Courier Conference of America v. American Postal Workers Union · Schmitt 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'on the best and narrowest grounds available.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[a]ssuming without deciding that Code § 18.2-388 requires physical impairment”
    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.