7 Va. App. 225 - Cook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 11 Va. App. 380 - Ferrell v. Commonwealth (1990), 12 Va. App. 1040 - Spence v. Commonwealth (1991)
30 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 Brady v. United States · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Gray v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · United States v. Harrington
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The admission of photographs is a matter resting within the sound discretion of a trial court," and the court's decision will be upheld unless an abuse of discretion is shown. But it is always essential to the right to introduce a photograph in evidence that it have a relevant and material bearing upon some matter in controversy at the trial, and the party offering such evidence should give proof of its relevancy to the issue before the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the offenses meet the requirements of Rule 3A:6(b) [or] the accused and the Commonwealth's attorney consent thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The admission of photographs is a matter resting within the sound discretion of a trial court,”
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.