4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
501 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 501 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth (1997), 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth (1988)
501 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 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Evans v. Commonwealth · Ryan v. Commonwealth · Doe v. Thomas · Strawderman 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 501 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The judgment of a trial court sitting without a jury is entitled to the same weight as a jury verdict and will not be set aside unless it appears from the evidence that the judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“is grounded in the belief that the stress or excitement produced by a startling event may suspend one’s powers of deliberation and fabrication thus insuring the trustworthiness of declarations prompted by the startling event. ... The issue is whether a person’s statement about the facts is the product of a startling event such that it excludes the possibility that it is a fabrication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To pivot the admissibility of a subsequent statement, however spontaneous, on the question[ ] of whether it was prompted by an equally spontaneous inquiry would serve no useful purpose. If the question or questioner suggested or influenced the response, then the declaration may lack the necessary reliability to be admitted.””
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.