Kenneth Palestine Davis v. Commonwealth of Virginia

1989-06-06 · Court of Appeals of Virginia · United States

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1992-03-19Haas v. StateSupreme Court of Florida 1989-12-11STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GARY DAVID WETZEL, Defendant-AppellantHawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

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1988-01-06Mosley v. the StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia 1986-05-01STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Mary Lou KNOLL, Defendant-AppellantIdaho Court of Appeals 1986-02-26State v. TischioNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division 1983-12-15The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOM KAPPAS, A/K/A Athanasios Kapogiannis, Defendant-AppellantAppellate Court of Illinois 1982-03-25State of Vermont v. David RollinsSupreme Court of Vermont 1981-07-09Marcia K. DENISON, Petitioner, v. ANCHORAGE, a Municipal Corporation, RespondentCourt of Appeals of Alaska 1979-04-03STATE OF OREGON, Respondent v. CHESTER CLARK, PetitionerOregon Supreme Court 1973-02-26STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. THOMAS JAMES SWARENGIN (No. 72-1665), AppellantCourt of Appeals of Oregon

9 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.