5 Va. App. 167 - Terry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 8 Va. App. 417 - Diffendal v. Commonwealth (1989), 10 Va. App. 563 - Stewart v. Commonwealth (1990)
26 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 LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Levasseur v. Wainwright · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Coffey v. Commonwealth · New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad v. Thomas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not `single out for emphasis a part of the evidence tending to establish a particular fact.' The danger of such emphasis is that it gives undue prominence by the trial judge to the highlighted evidence and may mislead the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“informed the jury of the types of evidence the jury could use to reach legal conclusions " (emphasis added)). The submission of this legal issue to the jury did not, therefore, automatically "downgrade”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[g]enerally, a trial court may cure errors arising from improperly presented evidence by immediately instructing the jury to disregard that evidence.”
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.