48 Va. App. 426 - Selph v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 126 - Brown v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 619 - Marlowe v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 349 - Fleming 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person by threats of bodily harm ... knowingly attempts to intimidate or impede a judge, magistrate, justice, juror, witness, or any law-enforcement officer, lawfully engaged in the discharge of his duty ... relating to the violation of any violent felony offense listed in subsection C of [Code] § 17.1-805, he shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Only questions presented in the petition for appeal will be noticed by the Court of Appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Com.
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.