31 Va. App. 632 - Bostic v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Commonwealth v. Burns · Kiracofe v. Commonwealth · Fulcher v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 349 - Moats 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.
“If [Schwartz] is to be overruled, . . . it must be expressly overruled by the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“constrained by our previous decisions and those of the Supreme Court,”
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.