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← 36 Va. App. 326 - Thomas v. Commonwealth

36 Va. App. 326 - Thomas v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2011
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Keesee v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 378 - Sutherland v. Commonwealth · 23 Va. App. 430 - Foster-Zahid v. Commonwealth · 11 Va. App. 671 - Owusu v. Commonwealth · 28 Va. App. 1 - Taylor 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “was, in the strictest sense, an issue of territorial[, and not subject matter,] jurisdiction ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “to prove that [Thomas'] offenses occurred within the Commonwealth of 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.