31 Va. App. 243 - Hartigan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
3
states following
March 2014
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Morrissey v. Brewer · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Griffin v. California
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he appropriate standard of review requires that we view the evidence with respect to the refused instruction in the light most favorable to [the proponent of the instruction].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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