45 Va. App. 357 - Moses v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Miller v. California · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Commonwealth v. Hudson · Parks 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[l]egislature is presumed to have known and to have had the common law in mind in the enactment of a statute. The statute must therefore be read along with the provisions of the common law, and the latter will be read into the statute unless it clearly appears from express language or by necessary implication that the purpose of the statute was to change the common law."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is a codification of the common law”); Duvallon v. District of Columbia, 515 A.2d 724, 725-26 (D.C. 1986) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wisneski v. State
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.