6 Va. App. 421 - Jefferson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2014
18 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 Dufour v. Mississippi · Clozza v. Commonwealth · Campbell v. Commonwealth · Cook v. Commonwealth · Reid 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n extrajudicial confession of an accused that he committed the offense with which he is charged is not, alone and uncorroborated, adequate proof of the corpus delicti.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the commission of the crime has been fully confessed by the accused, only slight corroborative evidence is necessary to establish the corpus delicti. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of the corroboration rule is to reduce the possibility of punishing a person for a crime which was never, in fact, committed.”
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.