Wise v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2016
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is nothing in the facts stated to give color to the suspicion that, in what he did, [the attorney] intended the slightest contempt of, or disrespect to, the lawful authority of the [court in Henrico County].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Com.“but it could not punish for a contempt of court when it is manifest that no contempt of its authority was intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singleton v. Com.
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.