Ricks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1515
Relies on Prillaman v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Zamani · Perry v. Com. · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Board of County Supervisors
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plain, obvious, and rational meaning of a statute is to be preferred over any curious, narrow, or strained construction, and a statute should never be construed in a way that leads to absurd results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. McAuliffe“[t]o prove a bodily injury, the victim need not experience any observable wounds, cuts, or breaking of the skin”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“While we do not agree with the Court of Appeals' rationale in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.