6 Va. App. 378 - Sutherland v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Evans (2003), 51 Va. App. 459 - Morris v. Commonwealth (2008)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 McClain v. Commonwealth · Randall v. Commonwealth · Keesee v. Commonwealth · Pollard v. Commonwealth · West 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that police of a certain jurisdiction investigate a crime cannot support an inference that the crime occurred within their jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“proof of venue ... is not regarded as material, so far as the merits of the prosecution are concerned, and so the allegation of venue is not part of the crime. Because the foregoing error did not stem from evidentiary insufficiency with respect to the guilt or innocence of the defendant, the case will be remanded [to the Circuit Court of Arlington County for transfer to the Circuit Court of Fairfax County] for further proceedings, if the Commonwealth be so advised.”
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.