Roach v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2009
9 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 103 W. Va. 44 - Schad v. McNinch
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . [T]he plea of nolo contendere was improperly received; therefore, it follows that the case was tried without a joinder of issue upon any valid plea. Without a plea entered in person' by the accused, or by the court, there can be no trial of a felony charge.” 157 Va., at 960 , 162 S.E., at 52 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassidy v. Peyton
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.