9 Va. App. 131 - Crumpton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2019
13 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 Robinson v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 143 - Sargent v. Commonwealth · Gray v. Graham · Brown, Adm'r v. Peters, Adm'r · 3 Va. App. 59 - Taylor 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are so thoroughly unreliable as to be of no proper evidentiary use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Commonwealth attacked Crumpton’s credibility with his prior inconsistent statements. We cannot determine that a full explanation under the limitations set out above rather than Crumpton’s restricted explanation would not have affected the jury’s determination of Crumpton’s credibility and ultimately his guilt or innocence of the charge against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule [barring evidence of polygraph results] is so firmly embedded in our law that even `[e]vidence of a person's willingness or unwillingness to submit to a polygraph examination is inadmissible.'”
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.