8 Va. App. 126 - Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 25 Va. App. 215 - Redman v. Commonwealth (1997), Jimenez v. Commonwealth (1991)
3 federal appellate · 128 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 United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Huntzinger v. United States · McCormick v. Texas · 4 Va. App. 433 - Mounce 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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The laudatory purpose behind Rule 5A:18 ... is to require that objections be promptly brought to the attention of the trial court with sufficient specificity that the alleged error can be dealt with and timely addressed and corrected when necessary. The rules promote orderly and efficient justice and are to be strictly enforced except where the error has resulted in manifest injustice.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a miscarriage of justice [has] occurred, not ... that a miscarriage might have occurred”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to show that a miscarriage of justice has occurred, an appellant must demonstrate more than that the Commonwealth failed to prove an element of the offense .... [T]he appellant must demonstrate that he or she was convicted for conduct that was not a criminal offense or the record must affirmatively prove that an element of the offense did not occur.”
3 later decisions 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.