48 Va. App. 623 - Robinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Snyder v. Commonwealth · Hubbard v. Henrico Ltd. Partnership · 41 Va. App. 752 - Edwards v. Commonwealth · 26 Va. App. 335 - Watkins v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Orange-Madison Cooperative Farm Service
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Involve' is defined, in pertinent part, as `to draw in as a participant,' to `implicate,' `to relate closely,' to `connect,' `to have an effect on,' to `concern directly,' to `affect.' Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1191 (1993). Nothing in these definitions suggests that, for purposes of determining criminal liability under Code § 46.2-894, a driver must have legally caused an accident in order to be considered `involved' in the accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Com.“he was frustrated about people cutting others off all the time when they tried to merge at that location.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson 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.