8 Va. App. 149 - Foley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 10 Va. App. 237 - McGill v. Commonwealth (1990), 9 Va. App. 175 - Foley v. Commonwealth (1989)
38 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 Reynolds v. States · Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Quintana v. Commonwealth · Justus 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Three factors must exist in order for the exception to apply. They are: (1) the declaration must have been contemporaneous with the act; (2) it must explain the act; and (3) it must be spontaneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When any act done by any person is a fact in issue, or is relevant to the issue, the following ... are relevant — ... all statements made by or to that person accompanying and explaining such act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] trial court in its discretion may allow the Commonwealth to present rebuttal evidence even when it would have been more appropriately introduced as part of the case-in-chief”
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.