32 Va. App. 22 - Abraham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2005
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lilly v. Virginia · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Waye v. Commonwealth · Muniz v. Texas · 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he scope and duration of [the victim's] detention clearly exceeded what was necessary to commit the robbery of her personal property and the theft of his car,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“continued to attack [the victim] after committing the robbery, after abducting [him], and after taking the car”
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.