8 Va. App. 520 - Estes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Frye v. Commonwealth · Zirkle v. Commonwealth · Goins v. Commonwealth · Jones 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the mere incantation that hearsay evidence is admitted to prove a proposition other than the truth of the assertion does not cure the hearsay problem. The proposition to be proved must be relevant to the issues at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weller v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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