35 Va. App. 442 - Bennett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 53 - Buchanan v. Buchanan · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Harper 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do some bodily harm to another, whether from wantonness or malice, by means calculated to produce the end if carried into execution; as by striking at him with a stick or other weapon, or without a weapon, though he be not struck, or even by raising up the arm or a cane in a menacing manner, by throwing a bottle of glass with an intent to strike, by levelling a gun at another within a distance from which, supposing it to be loaded, the contents might injure, or any similar act accompanied with circumstances denoting an intention coupled with a present ability, of using actual violence against the person of another.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough Bennett stood within inches of the officers, he made no overt act or attempt to physically harm either officer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“` if [the deputies] didn't leave, it would be an "F”
2 later decisions 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.