8 Va. App. 109 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 53 Va. App. 266 - Wright v. Commonwealth (2009), 28 Va. App. 579 - Herrel v. Commonwealth (1998)
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 Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Harriss · Rose v. Locke · Turner v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 531 - Crews 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of Code § 46.2-894 `is to prevent motorists involved in accidents from evading civil or criminal liability by leaving the scene of an accident and to require drivers involved in an accident to provide identification information and render assistance to injured parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milazzo v. Com.“The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident in which a person is . . . injured . . . shall immediately stop . . . and report his name, address ... to the person struck .... The driver shall also render reasonable assistance to any person injured in such accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from its four corners and not by singling out particular words or phrases.”
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.