51 Va. App. 449 - Giles v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Commonwealth · Ansell v. Commonwealth · Armstrong v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Orange-Madison Cooperative Farm Service · Sansom v. BOARD OF SUP'RS OF MADISON COUNTY
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue we consider here ... is the extent to which a person must inhabit a house for it to constitute a `dwelling house' under the statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giles v. Com.“the issue is the extent to which a house must be `regularly use[d]' to qualify as a `dwelling house.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giles v. Com.“humans sleep in it and engage in other functions typically associated with habitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giles 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.