5 Va. App. 143 - Sargent v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth (1991), 26 Va. App. 335 - Watkins v. Commonwealth (1998)
47 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Carnley v. Cochran
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that `in every criminal case the evidence of the Commonwealth must show, beyond a reasonable doubt, every material fact necessary to establish the offense for which a defendant is being tried.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by clear, precise and unequivocal evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whether such an error is harmless in a particular case depends upon a host of factors, all readily accessible to reviewing courts. These factors include the importance of the witness’ testimony in the prosecution’s case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution’s case.””
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.