57 Va. App. 319 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 state decisions
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Brogan v. United States · Commonwealth v. Hudson · Parks v. Commonwealth · Bolden v. Com. · 16 Va. App. 82 - Pugliese 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Are you under indictment or information in any court for a felony, or any other crime, for which the judge could imprison you for more than one year? (An information is a formal accusation of a crime by a prosecutor. See definition 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Com.“the scienter element is satisfied by actual knowledge of the statement's falsity as well as any `deliberate disregard for its truth or falsity with a conscious purpose to avoid learning the truth.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Com.“I think the evidence shows that he knew what was going on.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith 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.