30 Va. App. 243 - Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2011
10 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 · 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 400 - Kauffmann v. Commonwealth · 27 Va. App. 505 - Marable v. Commonwealth · 16 Va. App. 751 - Hamilton 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is well established that the choice of offenses for which a criminal defendant will be charged is within the discretion of the Commonwealth’s Attorney.” Kauffmann v. Commonwealth, 8 Va.App. 400, 410, 382 S.E.2d 279, 284 (1989). “[I]t is a matter of prosecutorial election whether the Commonwealth proceeds under the misdemeanor statute or the felony statute against an accused....” Mason v. Commonwealth, 217 Va. 321, 323 , 228 S.E.2d 683, 684 (1976). “Where the circumstances surrounding an offense permit prosecution under either of two statutes, the selection of the statute under which to proceed is a matter of prosecutorial election.” Smith v. Commonwealth, 17 Va.App. 37, 41 , 434 S.E.2d 914, 916 (1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the misdemeanor statute or the felony statute”
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.