8 Va. App. 574 - Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
February 2006
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth · Coe v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Scott 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.“[t]he determination and weighing of the probative value of the proffered evidence rests with the trial court and will be reviewed for an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Com.
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