3 Va. App. 674 - Walthall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2008
12 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 Albemarle County v. Marshall, Clerk · Cunningham v. Smith · Hallmark Personnel Agency, Inc. v. Jones · Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Farmville & Powhatan Railroad · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]here a word is used in different sections of a statute and its meaning is clear in all but one instance, ‘[t]he same meaning ... will be attributed to it elsewhere unless there be something in the context which clearly indicates that the Legislature intended some other and different meaning.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where it is clear that a proceeding is not criminal in nature, and no criminal conviction or sanction can result from the proceeding, or where the Commonwealth is not a party in interest, the Commonwealth should neither be required nor permitted to participate in the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Park
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.