31 Va. App. 466 - Webb v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““where the reference is to the ascertainment of guilt in another proceeding in its bearings upon the status or rights of the individual in a subsequent case, ... a ‘conviction’ is ... established [or] a person [is] deemed to have been ‘convicted’ ... [where] it is shown [that the fact finder has rendered a verdict and] that a judgment has been pronounced upon the verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 Va. App. 170 - M.G. v. Albemarle County Department of Social Services

2. “We cannot at once reason that such considerations promote enlightened sentencing and dismiss as harmless the prejudicial effects of inadmissible, although facially relevant, evidence pertaining to sentencing issues.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Va. App. 616 - Young v. Commonwealth

3. “[T]he prior criminal convictions of a felon, including previous efforts to punish and rehabilitate, "`bear upon a tendency to commit offenses, the probabilities of rehabilitation, and similar factors'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Va. App. 616 - Young v. Commonwealth