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← 43 Va. App. 593 - Cutright v. Commonwealth

43 Va. App. 593 - Cutright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Hudson · 13 Va. App. 399 - Penn v. Commonwealth · 42 Va. App. 739 - Seaton v. Commonwealth · Overbee v. Commonwealth · Vinson 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`the result of a [blood] analysis is but auxiliary proof which may tend to corroborate evidence of the objective symptoms [of being under the influence of alcohol].'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Commonwealth [had] no right to collect the sample in the first place and, a fortiori, even less right to offer into evidence test results based on the sample.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Test results from a breath or blood test are not necessary or required to prove driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”
    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.