39 Va. App. 610 - Patterson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hubbard v. Henrico Ltd. Partnership · Anderson v. Commonwealth · In Re Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections · Dyke v. Commonwealth · HCA Health Services of Virginia, Inc. v. Levin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a person has been sentenced for a felony to the Department of Corrections but has not actually been transferred to a receiving unit of the Department, the court which heard the case, if it appears compatible with the public interest and there are circumstances in mitigation of the offense, may, at any time before the person is transferred to the Department, suspend or otherwise modify the unserved portion of such a sentence. The court may place the person on probation for such time as the court shall determine.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]y its express terms, Code § 19.2-303 permits the trial court, in cases where the defendant “has been sentenced for a felony to the Department of Corrections but has not actually been transferred to ... the Department,” to retain jurisdiction beyond the twenty-one-day limit of Rule 1:1 to “suspend or otherwise modify the unserved portion of such a sentence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not actually been transferred to a receiving unit of the Department [of Corrections].”
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.