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← 56 Va. App. 351 - Smith v. Commonwealth

56 Va. App. 351 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
September 2014
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bowles v. Russell · Kontrick v. Ryan · Schacht v. United States · Morrison v. Bestler · Porter v. Com.

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “authority over persons, things, or occurrences located in a defined geographic area”). It is distinct from the subject matter jurisdiction conferred on circuit courts under Code § 17.1-513. See Code § 17.1-513 (stating that the circuit courts shall have “original jurisdiction of all indictments for felonies and of presentments, informations and indictments for misdemeanors”). As the Supreme Court of Virginia has explained in response to a similar argument,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Fortunately, the Supreme Court . . . expressly defined the term [jurisdiction] so as to guide both the bench and bar. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.