Gardner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 8 Va. App. 359 - Kelly v. Commonwealth (1989), 12 Va. App. 948 - Darnell v. Commonwealth (1991)
25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. United States · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Toler v. Commonwealth · Poindexter 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o ruling of the trial court ... will be considered as a basis for reversal unless the objection [is] stated together with the grounds therefor at the time of the ruling....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is to allow correction of an error if possible during the trial, thereby avoiding the necessity of mistrials and reversals.”
3 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.