3 Va. App. 531 - Crews v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 14 Va. App. 836 - Branch v. Commonwealth (1992), 24 Va. App. 57 - Allard v. Commonwealth (1997)
57 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 Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Turner v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Graybeal v. Commonwealth · Best 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The phrase “other house” is a general phrase placed at the end of a list of specific references to various structures. Those specific structures share the common element of being improvements affixed to the ground, that is, they are realty. Under the doctrine ejusdem generis, the general phrase “other house” must look for its meaning to the specific items which precede it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If any person commits any of the acts mentioned in Code § 18.2-90 with intent to commit larceny ... he shall be guilty of statutory burglary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and give it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
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.