14 Va. App. 300 - Welsh v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2014
1 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 6001 · 18 U.S.C. § 6002
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · California v. ARC America Corp. · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Most-quoted passages
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“(10) [JJust before the trial of Michael Billington, Billington moved to call Welsh as a defense witness and supported the motion to call Welsh with a pro se submission that summarized portions of Welsh’s testimony, which summary was read by Russell. (11) [A]t a hearing on Billington’s motion to subpoena Welsh, at which Russell and Barbara Gaden were present, the trial judge referred specifically to portions of Welsh’s immunized testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(4) Assistant Attorneys General Russell and Chabalewski attended portions of the opening statements in the Boston trial and may have been influenced in trial strategy or exposed to evidence derived from Welsh’s immunized testimony. (5) Russell and Chabalewski read media accounts of the Boston and Alexandria trials at which Welsh testified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(3) Virginia investigator Bryant selected lender witnesses to be used in Welsh’s prosecution based on reports compiled by federal agents who had been exposed to Welsh’s testimony and which reports summarized the interviews with them!”
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.