2 Va. App. 134 - Wilson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2012
18 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 Quercia v. United States · Starr v. United States · Martin v. Commonwealth · Barker v. Commonwealth · Tuggle v. Commonwealth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An accused has a fundamental right to a trial by an impartial jury. U.S. Const. amends. VI and XIV; Va. Const. Art. I, § 8.” Barker v. Commonwealth, 230 Va. 370, 374 , 337 S.E.2d 729, 732 (1985); see also Martin v. Commonwealth, 221 Va. 436, 444 , 271 S.E.2d 123, 128 (1980). It is the trial judge’s duty to empanel jurors who are free from bias and prejudice against the parties. Scott v. Commonwealth, 1 Va.App. 447, 451 , 339 S.E.2d 899, 901 (1986). The trial judge’s fulfillment of this duty involves the exercise of sound judicial discretion, which ordinarily is binding on appeal absent manifest error. Calhoun v. Commonwealth, 226 Va. 256, 258-59 , 307 S.E.2d 896, 898 (1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial judge should be careful to guard against prejudice to the accused by the judge’s remarks [in the presence of] the jury because the influence of the trial judge on the jury “is necessarily and properly of great weight” and “his lightest word or intimation is received with deference, and may prove controlling.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If there be a reasonable doubt whether the juror [is prejudiced], that doubt is sufficient to insure his exclusion.... [I]t is not only important that justice should be impartially administered, but it should also flow through channels as free from suspicion as possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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