40 Va. App. 193 - King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 26 Va. App. 154 - Juares v. Commonwealth · 10 Va. App. 430 - Willis v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 349 - Fleming v. Commonwealth · Hawks v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 211 - Hairston 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The indictment or information shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement ... describing the offense charged----In describing the offense, ... the indictment or information may state so much of the common law or statutory definition of the offense as is sufficient to advise what offense is charged.”
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.