41 Va. App. 716 - Nelson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2025
12 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Bagley · Smith v. Phillips · Weatherford v. Bursey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon notice to the adverse party and on affidavit by the party applying for the subpoena that the requested writings... are material to the proceedings and are in the possession of a person not a party to the action, the judge or the clerk may issue a subpoena duces tecum for the production of writings... described in the subpoena.... "Any subpoenaed writings ..., regardless by whom requested, shall be available for examination and review by all parties and counsel. Subpoenaed writings ... shall be received by the clerk and shall not be open for examination and review except by the parties and counsel unless otherwise directed by the court.... "Where subpoenaed writings ... are of such nature or content that disclosure to other parties would be unduly prejudicial, the court, upon written motion and notice to all parties, may grant such relief as it deems appropriate, including limiting disclosure, removal and copying."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the possible recognition by the juror of the foster mother, which possibly could lead to an understanding that she was the victim's foster parent, which could have caused the juror to recall possibly positive impressions of the foster mother from a past working relationship, and those impressions could have possibly biased the juror against the defendant, such that the juror would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any subpoenaed writings ..., regardless by whom requested, shall be available for examination and review by all parties and counsel. Subpoenaed writings ... shall be received by the clerk and shall not be open for examination and review except by the parties and counsel unless otherwise directed by the court....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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