47 Va. App. 754 - Deville v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2021
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · 41 Va. App. 250 - Kelly v. Commonwealth · Correll v. Commonwealth · Muhammad v. Com.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`would have altered the outcome of the case.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] trial judge’s denial of a Brady motion to vacate a conviction—if predicated on an unequivocal finding of no prejudice in a bench trial—produces a result conceptually no different from that which would follow the granting of the motion, a reopening of the evidentiary record for the new evidence to be admitted, and a reinstatement of the earlier conviction order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]rejudice cannot be shown where, as here, the trial judge was the trier of fact and, upon learning of the undisclosed information, rules unequivocally that the impeachment evidence would have had no impact on the factfinding underlying the defendant's conviction.”
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.