6 Va. App. 313 - Foster v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992), 11 Va. App. 380 - Ferrell v. Commonwealth (1990)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 New York v. Ferber · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Watkins v. Virginia · Watkins 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of other offenses is [admissible] if it shows the conduct and feeling of the accused towards his victim, if it establishes their prior relations, or if it tends to prove any relevant element of the offense charged. Such evidence is permissible in cases where the motive, intent or knowledge of the accused is involved, or where the evidence is connected with or leads up to the offense for which the accused is on trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“are based on the same act or transaction, or on two or more acts or transactions that are connected or constitute parts of a common scheme or plan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if justice does not require separate trials and ... the offenses meet the requirements of Rule 3A:6(b).”
2 later decisions 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.