Watkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002 · most notably Betts v. Brady (1942), 16 Cal. 2d 701 - In Re Connor (1940)
5 federal appellate · 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gaines v. State of Washington · Barnes v. Commonwealth · State v. Yoes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nevertheless, nowhere in the statute has the Attorney General been given the power or authority to exclude a person's retained counsel from such a hearing. In the criminal, constitutional context, this Court has decided that, in Virginia, the right to have the assistance of counsel is a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.