3 Va. App. 418 - Gardner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 8 Va. App. 359 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (1989), 12 Va. App. 948 - Darnell v. Commonwealth (1991)
26 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 Allen v. United States · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Toler v. Commonwealth · Poindexter 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Keastead said that she heard Dominquez take something from a kitchen drawer and go out the door. She further testified that while calling the police, she heard a gunshot. At the scene of the crime, however, Keastead told Officer Pope that when Dominquez asked who was knocking on the door, Gardner responded that he was a police officer and also stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant moved for a mistrial. The court granted the mistrial and excused the jury. Immediately thereafter, and before the jury left the courtroom, the prosecutor asked to address the court. At this time, the court ordered the jury to go back to the jury room. The prosecutor then argued that the court should give an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The case concluded at 2:20 p.m., when the jurors returned a unanimous verdict of guilty. Gardner argues that the trial court erred in continuing to poll the jurors after one juror stated that he did not agree with the verdict. He also argues that both the timing and the content of the”
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.