47 Va. App. 114 - Walker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Ohio · Ohio v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Hudson · Parks v. Commonwealth · 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person, who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes the person of another, with the intent to deprive such other person of his personal liberty ... shall be deemed guilty of 'abduction'....’’ Code § 18.2-48, in turn, provides a more severe punishment for (i) abduction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statutory language specifically refers to seizure, secreting, and detention-acts which 'do not necessarily involve movement.’ ” (quoting Roger D. Groot, Criminal Offenses & Defenses in Virginia at 2-3 (5th ed.2005))). The infant was clearly seized, taken, and withheld from her father. . The seizure or taking of an individual may be legally justified and thus not a violation of the abduction statute since the statute only prohibits a seizure or taking “without legal justification or excuse.” Code § 18.2-47.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“detention should be ignored because it was incidental to the claimed robbery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kitchens
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.