33 Va. App. 540 - Ashby v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 6 Va. App. 172 - Traverso v. Commonwealth · Brooks v. Peyton · Schneider v. Commonwealth · 15 Va. App. 157 - Deal v. Commonwealth · Fisher 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conclusions of the fact finder on issues of witness credibility may be disturbed on appeal only when we find that the witness' testimony was `inherently incredible, or so contrary to human experience as to render it unworthy of belief.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“These same principles apply in cases involving rape, sodomy, and other sexual offenses, which may be sustained solely upon the testimony of the victim, even in the absence of corroborating evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an original indictment is supplanted by a second indictment, the terms contemplated by [the speedy trial statute] are to be counted from the time of the second indictment.”
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.