5 Va. App. 36 - Hogan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 12 Va. App. 7 - Perkins v. Commonwealth (1991), 13 Va. App. 574 - Robinson v. Commonwealth (1992)
34 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Levasseur v. Wainwright · 1 Va. App. 335 - Ingram v. Commonwealth · Wise 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No ruling of the trial court ... will be considered as a basis for reversal unless the objection was stated together with the grounds therefor at the time of the ruling, except for good cause shown or to enable the Court of Appeals to attain the ends of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In interpreting this rule we have stated: `[T]he primary purpose of the contemporaneous objection rule is to advise the trial judge of the action complained of so that the court can consider the issue intelligently and, if necessary, take corrective action to avoid unnecessary appeals, reversals, and mistrials.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chaine v. Com.“Consistent with this purpose, we have held that objections must be stated with specificity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chaine 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.