47 Va. App. 247 - South v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · McBoyle v. United States · Brown v. Lukhard · 26 Va. App. 299 - Ohree v. Commonwealth · 41 Va. App. 658 - Crowder 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“question here is not what the legislature intended to enact, but what is the meaning of that which it did enact. We must determine the legislative intent by what the statute says and not by what we think it should have said.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“simply because it may seem to us that a similar policy applies, or upon the speculation that if the legislature had thought of it, very likely broader words would have been used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when a statutory text speaks clearly on a subject, 'effect must be given to it regardless of what courts think of its wisdom or policy.'”
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.