2 Va. App. 606 - Cantwell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 10 Va. App. 430 - Willis v. Commonwealth (1990), 3 Va. App. 612 - Holliday v. Commonwealth (1987)
44 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 Butts v. Commonwealth · Godfrey v. Commonwealth · Stephens v. Commonwealth · Livingston v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 211 - Hairston 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement, (1) naming the accused, (2) describing the offense charged, (3) identifying the county, city or town in which the accused committed the offense, and (4) reciting that the accused committed the offense on or about a certain date. In describing the offense, the indictment or information may use the name given to the offense by the common law, or the indictment or information may state so much of the common law or statutory definition of the offense as is sufficient to advise what offense is charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Without anything in a court order or elsewhere in the record to show that a defendant agreed to or concurred in [or failed to object to the Commonwealth's request to] delay ... his trial, or instigated proceedings which of necessity brought about a delay of his trial, the delay must be attributed to the Commonwealth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`stand mute without waiving his rights so long as his actions [do] not constitute a concurrence in or necessitate a delay of the trial.'”
2 later decisions 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.