3 Va. App. 519 - Harris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 13 Va. App. 566 - Jones v. Commonwealth (1992), 19 Va. App. 750 - Bivins v. Commonwealth (1995)
30 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 Mason v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Sutton v. Commonwealth · Pritchard v. Commonwealth · Falden 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Threats of violence or bodily harm are not an indispensable ingredient of intimidation. It is only necessary that the victim actually be put in fear of bodily harm by the willful conduct or words of the accused.”
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.