42 Va. App. 681 - Carter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`There must be some power, actual or apparent, of doing bodily harm; but apparent power is sufficient. In the instance we are referring to, the person assaulted is really put in fear.... It has been said that the gun must be within shooting distance; but plainly if it is not, yet seems to be so to the person assaulted, or danger otherwise appears imminent, it will be sufficient.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Com.

2. “[a] criminal assault was an attempt to commit a battery. A tortious assault was an act which put another in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Branch

3. “menacingly points at another with a gun, apparently loaded, yet not in fact”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Com.