40 Va. App. 710 - Raja v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “where the date of the offense is `not of the essence of the offense,' nor `shown to be significant,' the Commonwealth is not required to charge that it occurred on a specific date.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alfred Banks, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia · 51 Va. App. 386 - Ostrander v. Commonwealth

2. “the Commonwealth may even prove that the offense occurred on a date `other than that alleged in the charging instrument.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 51 Va. App. 386 - Ostrander v. Commonwealth

3. “particular charge, by its very nature, involves multiple instances of conduct,” if”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alfred Banks, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia