14 Va. App. 203 - Walker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2014
23 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 Blockburger v. United States · Grady v. Corbin · Peretz v. United States · Milton v. Texas · Briley 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The two indictments before us were handed down by the same grand jury on the same day and the two indictments arose out of the same incident. Under these circumstances, we find that the trial court erred in holding that these two proceedings constituted successive prosecutions. ... To hold otherwise would sanction the use by this and other defendants of the double jeopardy clause as a sword.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“neither `transform[s] the single prosecution into two separate prosecutions nor capture[s] for [the defendant] any special protections against successive prosecutions under the [D]ouble [J]eopardy [C]lause.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An offense is not a lesser included offense of another if each offense contains an element that the other does not.”
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.