33 Va. App. 669 - Sands v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2001
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 6 Va. App. 485 - Darnell v. Commonwealth · Swisher v. Swisher & Craun · McCullough v. McCullough · 14 Va. App. 130 - Boone v. Commonwealth · McGhee 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.
“[u]nder the facts of this case, the fact finder could reasonably have concluded that [the defendant] was without fault in beginning the altercation, reasonably apprehended she was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm and, thus, was justified in shooting her husband to prevent him from killing her or further inflicting serious bodily harm upon her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“out of the bathroom and the door of the living room, ... came back to the kitchen, ... opened the cabinet door, ... got the gun, and ... went to the bedroom”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“multiple bruises and contusions throughout [the defendant's] body,”
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.