9 Va. App. 359 - Wade v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Commonwealth · Pine v. Commonwealth · Livingston v. Commonwealth · Eastern Central Motor Carriers Ass'n v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Clift v. Alabama
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code § 19.2-294 speaks to `acts' of the accused, not elements of the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the same act be a violation of two or more statutes, or of two or more ordinances, or of one or more statutes and also one or more ordinances, conviction under one of such statutes or ordinances shall be a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under the other or others. 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the ‘same act’ was the ‘cause and nature’ of both offenses . . .”
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.