4 Va. App. 32 - Vescuso v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whenever, in the opinion of a circuit... court, or the judge thereof, the courthouse or other place wherein it is required to hold its session, cannot, or should not, from any cause, be occupied by it, or if the same shall be destroyed, or is being repaired, renovated, or enlarged by addition thereto, the court may hold its session at such places within the limits of the judicial circuit of which the said circuit court is a constituent part ... as may be appointed by its order, or by the warrant of the judge thereof in vacation, directed to its clerk, until the courthouse or its lawful place of session can or should be thereafter occupied, or until another shall be built and fitted for its occupation, or until such repairs, renovations or additions be completed, or until some other place be appointed by the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Va. App. 59 - Vescuso v. Commonwealth

2. “Every circuit... court for any county shall be held at the courthouse of such county ... except when some other place is prescribed by law or lawfully appointed....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Va. App. 59 - Vescuso v. Commonwealth