3 Va. App. 564 - Mullis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 4 Va. App. 317 - McGee v. Commonwealth (1987), 11 Va. App. 1 - Harrell v. Commonwealth (1990)
69 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 Donovan v. Dewey · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Skibs v. Otis McAlLister & Co. · Parks 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a juror to give unqualified credence to the testimony of a law enforcement officer and to decide credibility issues solely on that basis is an impermissible basis for resolving credibility and would constitute bias.” Id.; see also Chavez v. United States, 258 F.2d 816, 819 (10th Cir.1958) (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general abstract question put to the jurors, without more, made it difficult for them to give a meaningful answer and is a poor indication of the manner in which they would serve as jurors and evaluate any particular police testimony. Certainly their responses did not indicate to the trial judge who heard the entire voir dire and observed the prospective jurors that they would give unqualified credence to the testimony of a police officer. At most, their responses indicated that as an abstract proposition they would probably or would have a tendency to give some weight to the fact that a witness was a police officer in resolving credibility issues if all else were equal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f a police officer gives some testimony and a private citizen gives testimony that differs from what the police officer said—are there any of you who would believe or have a tendency to believe the police officer as opposed to the private citizen? ... This is if all things are equal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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