31 Va. App. 298 - Purvis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth · Satcher v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · United States v. Hudson · 14 Va. App. 892 - Hall 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the trial court . . . used the `harmless error doctrine . . . prospectively . . . as a basis to disregard an established rule of law'”
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.