45 Va. App. 518 - Conkling v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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30 state decisions

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

1. “At any time prior to commencement of the adjudicatory hearing, a juvenile fourteen years of age or older charged with an offense which if committed by an adult could be punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility, with the written consent of his counsel, may elect in writing to waive the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and have his case transferred to the appropriate circuit court, in which event his case shall thereafter be dealt with in the same manner as if he had been transferred pursuant to this article.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. D.L.G. v. Commonwealth

2. “Because the Code of Virginia is one body of law, we may consult other statutes using the same phraseology to assist us in divining legislative intent.”). 13 . See, e.g., Toops, 72 F.3d at 487 ; Hargrove v. Missouri Pacific R.R. Co., 780 So.2d 454, 463 (La.Ct.App.2001); Wolverine Ins. Co. v. State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co., 415 F.2d 1182 , 1184 (6th Cir.1969) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 407 F. Supp. 2d 763 - Earth Tech, Inc. v. United States Fire Insurance

3. “It is a fundamental principle of statutory construction that expressio unius est exclusio alterius, or `where a statute speaks in specific terms, an implication arises that omitted terms were not intended to be included within the scope of the statute.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Va. App. 247 - South v. Commonwealth