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← 48 Va. App. 325 - McDonald v. Commonwealth

48 Va. App. 325 - McDonald v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Lawrence v. Texas · Snyder v. Cosby · Eure v. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. · Shivaee 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Id. The Court of Appeals then considered an as-applied challenge to the constitutionality of Code § 18.2-361(A). Recognizing that McDonald predicates his argument upon his contention that the victims had reached the”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “is constitutional as applied to McDonald because his violations involved minors and therefore merit no protection under the Due Process Clause.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “has standing to challenge the constitutionality of a statute only insofar as it has an adverse impact on his own rights.”
    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.