Brown v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “nothing more than a straightforward application of the contemporaneous objection rule. "The primary purpose of requiring timely and specific objections is to allow the trial court an opportunity to rule intelligently on the issues presented, thereby avoiding unnecessary appeals and reversals.... If a party fails to make a timely objection, the objection is waived for purposes of appeal."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Bass · 63 Va. App. 92 - George Wesley Huguely, V v. Commonwealth of Virginia

2. “[f]ormal exceptions to rulings or orders of the court shall be unnecessary; ... it shall be sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling ... is made or sought, makes known to the court the action which he desires the court to take or his objections to the action of the court and his grounds therefor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Joseph Moncrief v. Division of Child Support Enforcement, ex rel. Mary Ann Joyner · United Leasing v. Lehner Family Bus. Trust

3. “allows an appellate court to consider a matter not preserved by objection in the trial court 'to attain the ends of justice.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Bass