38 Va. App. 319 - Thomas v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A continuing offense is a continuous, unlawfiil act or series of acts set on foot by a single impulse and operated by an unintermittent force, however long a time it may occupy. Where such an act or series of acts runs through several jurisdictions, the offense is committed and cognizable in each.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 51 Va. App. 459 - Morris v. Commonwealth · Bonner v. Commonwealth

2. “[a]ny person, ... who ... intentionally removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys or obliterates in any manner or way or who ... causes to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed or obliterated in any manner or way the name of the ... or serial number ... on any pistol ... shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 62 Va. App. 206 - Larwan Badru Bonner v. Commonwealth of Virginia

3. “argument, authority or citations to the record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 42 Va. App. 481 - Anzualda v. Commonwealth