16 Va. App. 717 - Feigley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 44 Va. App. 1 - Haskins v. Commonwealth (2004), 57 Va. App. 495 - Ervin v. Commonwealth (2011)
32 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 Morris v. Slappy · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · Marquez v. Texas · Forster v. United States · Mattiza v. Texas
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accused's right to be represented by counsel includes "not only an indigent's right to have the government appoint an attorney to represent him, but also the right of any accused, if he can provide counsel for himself by his own resources to be represented by an attorney of his own choosing."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial judge has broad discretion in determining whether a continuance to obtain counsel is necessary in order to preserve the accused's right to assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]nly an unreasoning and arbitrary `insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of a justifiable request for delay' violates the right to the assistance of counsel.”
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.