7 Va. App. 596 - Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Coe v. Commonwealth · Lewis 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q: Did you ever pick this man out of any photographs shown to you by the police officers? A: No. Q: Do you recall the preliminary hearing when we were in court before, in lower court on this case? A: Yes. Q: Do you recall that you testified that you picked this man out of a photo spread? A: Yes. Q: But that’s not what you did? A: No.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the [trial] court was required to balance the probative value of allowing the Commonwealth to explain [the manager's] ability to identify Lewis against any incidental prejudice involved by the jury learning of the prior robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Com.“Lewis' questions of [the manager] on cross-examination called the reliability of his identification into question and, thus, opened the door for the evidence to be received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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