Hall v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2013
4 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 Chimel v. California · Schaaf v. Commonwealth · Tharp v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Oliver
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, the defendant in this case was in custody and thus under arrest. See also Johnson v. Commonwealth, 208 Va. 740 , 160 S.E.2d 793 (1968). With respect to citizen’s arrest, the court in Hall v. Commonwealth, — Va. App. —, 389 S.E.2d 921, 924 (1990), stated: The Commonwealth argues that even if the officers exceeded their statutory authority, the arrest was, nevertheless, lawful because the officers retained the power as private citizens to place Hall under arrest. Because there is no statute governing an arrest by a private citizen, we must look to the common law.”
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.