35 Va. App. 511 - Cotton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sandstrom v. Montana · People v. Moran · Blythe v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Haskell 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.
“doctrine of merger [is] not widely accepted ... [t]he doctrine has never been applied in Virginia.”
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.