6 Va. App. 351 - King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Wesson (1990), 12 Va. App. 624 - Battle v. Commonwealth (1991)
55 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 15 Cal. 3d 79 - People v. Antick · Commonwealth v. Redline · Turner v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers · Haskell 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elevate[s] to murder a homicide committed during the course of a felony by imputing malice to the killing.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the homicide is within the res gestae of the initial felony and is an emanation thereof, it is committed in the perpetration of that felony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“presence at the location of the [murder], and nothing directly related to the commission of the felony that caused the [murder].”
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.