6 Va. App. 300 - Diggs v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 21 Va. App. 519 - Gilliam v. Commonwealth (1996), 46 Va. App. 637 - Auer v. Commonwealth (2005)
40 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 Diamond v. Chakrabarty · Brown v. Lukhard · Richard L. Deal & Associates, Inc. v. Commonwealth · Barber v. City of Danville
Most-quoted passages
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““Self-propelled” is an adjective meaning “[containing its own means of propulsion. . . .” American Heritage Dictionary, 1113 (2d College ed. 1982). Machinery refers to “Machines or machine parts collectively,” while a machine is “[a] system, usually of rigid bodies, formed and connected to alter, transmit, and direct applied forces in a predetermined manner to accomplish a specific objective. . . .” Id. at 751.”
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.