9 Va. App. 272 - Keech v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 29 Va. App. 548 - Ellis v. Commonwealth (1999), Gallimore v. Commonwealth (1993)
43 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 6 Va. App. 485 - Darnell v. Commonwealth · Booth v. Robertson · Griffin v. Shively · King v. Commonwealth · Bell 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Criminal negligence] must be more than mere inadvertence or misadventure. It is a recklessness or indifference incompatible with a proper regard for human life.” Criminal negligence has also been defined as conduct “so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard of human life,” and conduct “so flagrant, culpable, and wanton as to show utter disregard of the safety of others under circumstances likely to cause injury,” and conduct “so gross and culpable as to indicate a callous disregard of human life.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining the degree of negligence sufficient to support a conviction of vehicular involuntary manslaughter, the accused’s conscious awareness of the risk of injury created by his conduct is necessarily a significant factor. Obviously, when the driver proceeds in the face of a known risk, the degree of the negligence is increased, and may turn that which would have been ordinary negligence into gross, willful or wanton negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a conviction of involuntary manslaughter involving the operation of a motor vehicle can be supported when the conduct of the driver constitutes a great departure from that of a reasonable person (gross, wanton or willful conduct) which creates a great risk of injury to others and where by the application of an objective standard the accused should have realized the risk created by his conduct.”
2 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.