3 Va. App. 623 - Coram v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 18 Va. App. 510 - Hughes v. Commonwealth (1994), 5 Va. App. 337 - Rogers v. Commonwealth (1987)
22 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 · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jury could reasonably have found that the defendant’s actions in pulling the female victim around the car and ordering her to lie down were acts of restraint and asportation separate and apart from the restraint inherent in either the sexual assault or the robbery.... Furthermore, the juiy could reasonably have concluded that [the defendant] moved [the female victim] to avoid detection____Moving [the female victim]... took her out of the line of sight from where she had come.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The defendant’s] asportation of the victim... substantially increased tiie risk of harm to the victim by decreasing the possibility of detecting his criminal activity. Moreover, asportation to decrease the possibility of detection is not an act inherent in or necessaiy to the restraint required in the commission of attempted rape. His behavior substantially invaded the interests that § 18.2-47 [the abduction statute] was designed to protect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the record in its entirety sets forth sufficient evidence from which a jury could reasonably infer that the abduction was `separate and apart from, and not merely incidental to' the crime of attempted rape.”
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.