14 Va. App. 601 - Commonwealth v. Sluss’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2024
21 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. § 6002
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Kastigar v. United States · Rufo v. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail · 4 Va. App. 326 - Graves v. Graves · 4 Va. App. 173 - Fry v. Schwarting
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rosecutors may enter into cooperation/immunity agreements whereby the government promises an individual immunity from prosecution, or from use of, and/or derivative use of, statements the witness makes to the government. These agreements are usually made in consideration for the individual’s cooperation in providing information concerning criminal activity. ... [Cjooperation/immunity agreements [also] are subject to due process safeguards which require that the government strictly adhere to the terms of its agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the government [bears] the `burden of establishing a breach by the defendant [of the... agreement] if the agreement is to be considered unenforceable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Representations by counsel are not evidence that a court may properly consider.”); Graves v. Graves, 4 Va.App. 326, 332 , 357 S.E.2d 554, 558 (1987) (”
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.