3 Va. App. 152 - Glover v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 state decisions

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Commonwealth ... is not obliged to enter into an agreement whereby it is precluded from putting on its evidence simply because the defendant is willing to make a qualified stipulation. The trial court correctly ruled that the Commonwealth was entitled to prove the indictment, and the evidence of [the defendant’s] prior conviction for robbery was properly received for that purpose. [The defendant’s] willingness to stipulate does nothing to change that conclusion.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 9 Va. App. 110 - Hudson v. Commonwealth · 18 Va. App. 168 - Essex v. Commonwealth

2. “Evidence which shows or tends to show the accused is guilty of the commission of other offenses at other times is inadmissible if its only relevancy is to show the character of the accused or his disposition to commit an offense similar to that charged; but if such evidence tends to prove any other relevant fact of the offense charged, and is otherwise admissible, it will not be excluded merely because it also shows him to have been guilty of another crime. Williams v. Commonwealth, 203 Va. 837, 841 , 127 S.E.2d 423, 426 (1962).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 10 Va. App. 200 - Colclasure v. Commonwealth

3. “is entitled to prove the elements set forth in the [warrant], and proof of the [DUI charge as a third or subsequent offense under Code § 18.2-266] required proof of the previous conviction[s] for [DUI].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Farmer v. Com.