4 Va. App. 433 - Mounce v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth (1997), 8 Va. App. 126 - Brown v. Commonwealth (1989)
114 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 Floyd v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 335 - Ingram v. Commonwealth · Ryan v. Commonwealth · High v. Georgia · Ball 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a miscarriage of justice [has] occurred, not ... that a miscarriage might have occurred”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“No ruling of the trial court ... will be considered as a basis for reversal unless the objection was stated together with the grounds therefor at the time of the ruling, except for good cause shown or to enable the Court of Appeals to attain the ends of justice.”
4 later decisions 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.