46 Va. App. 161 - Epps v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
September 2014
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Barr v. Town & Country Properties, Inc. · 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Conwell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one of the fundamental rules of construction of statutes that the intention of the legislature is to be gathered from a view of the whole and every part of the statute taken and compared together, giving to every word and every part of the statute, if possible, its due effect and meaning, and to the words used their ordinary and popular meaning, unless it plainly appears that they were used in some other sense. If the intention of the legislature can be thus discovered, it is not permissible to add to or subtract from the words used in the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It appearing to the Court that the Sheriff of the City of Petersburg has ceased to provide security for the Courthouse when Court is not in session, it is ORDERED that in such times when security is not provided, the Courthouse shall be locked. Entrance shall be had only by calling 733-2423. The Clerk of this Court is directed to post a copy of this Order on the front door of each Courthouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any judge, clerk of any court, magistrate, or other person having the power to issue warrants, who is the victim of a crime, shall not be incompetent solely because of his office to testify in any criminal or civil proceeding arising out of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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