10 Va. App. 169 - Wilmoth v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2003
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sheppard v. Maxwell · Marshall v. United States · Bottoson v. Florida · Stockton v. Commonwealth · Coppola v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“The constitutional guarantee of an impartial jury does not contemplate excluding those who have read or heard news accounts concerning the case or even exclusion of those who have formed an opinion based on such accounts. . . . The test, instead, is whether a juror is capable of laying aside a preconceived opinion and rendering “a verdict solely on the evidence.””
3 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.