5 Va. App. 468 - Harward v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 14 Va. App. 892 - Hall v. Commonwealth (1992), Howard v. State (1997)
79 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 Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Levasseur v. Wainwright · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 523 - Bridgeman 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, a contemporaneous objection on stated specific grounds must be made in the trial court before an appellate court is authorized to review the question of admissibility of evidence. To be timely, an objection to the admissibility of evidence must be made when the occasion arises — that is, when the evidence is offered, the statement made or the ruling given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Supreme Court held “unequivocally that a decision to grant or refuse a petition for writ of error is based upon equally-applied criteria — the merits of the case.” When there is “substantial possibility that error has been committed in the conviction of the defendant,” then a writ is granted. “[A] convicted felon whose claims lack substance is refused a writ.” The Court has held the doctrine to apply even when “the precise issue involved” resulted in denial of a petition for a writ of error in a separate case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'decision to ... refuse a petition for writ of error is based upon ... the merits of the case’ ” (quoting Saunders v. Reynolds, 214 Va. 697, 700 , 204 S.E.2d 421, 424 (1974))); id. (noting that”
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.