31 Va. App. 326 - Perkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2020
2 federal appellate · 11 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 3 Va. App. 523 - Bridgeman v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 83 - Speight v. Commonwealth · Wood v. Commonwealth · 27 Va. App. 148 - Gnadt 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An assault and battery is the unlawful touching of another. See Gnadt v. Commonwealth, 27 Va. App. 148, 151 , 497 S.E.2d 887, 888 (1998). Assault and battery is 'the least touching of another, willfully or in anger.' Roger D. Groot, Criminal Offenses and Defenses in Virginia 29 (4th ed. 1998). The defendant does not have to intend to do harm; a battery may also be 'done in a spirit of rudeness or insult.' Id. (footnote omitted). The touching need not result in injury. See Gnadt, 27 Va. App. at 151 , 497 S.E.2d at 888 . A touching is not unlawful if the person consents or if the touching is justified or excused.”
3 later decisions 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.