5 Va. App. 229 - Fields v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
August 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barrett v. Commonwealth · Whittaker v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 317 - McGee v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 231 - White v. Commonwealth · Wyche 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Virginia courts have defined the word `convicted' in accordance with Smith, but only in the context of a defendant who has been confronted with some type of forfeiture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramdass v. Angelone
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.