In Re: Leroy Richards Nominal Hon Ive a Swan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Vanterpool v. Government of the Virgin Islands (2015), Percival v. People (2015)
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Will v. United States · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concern of prosecutorial harassment speaks to the danger that a prosecutor will engage in a cycle of levying and dismissing charges against a particular defendant. The other concerns are harder to describe. Courts have equated a dismissal that is clearly contrary to the public interest with one in which the prosecutor appears motivated by bribery, animus towards the victim, or a desire to attend a social event rather than trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The presiding judge of the Superior Court shall be the administrative head of the court and shall preside at all sessions of the court which he attends. He shall be responsible for the observance by the court of the rules ... governing the practice and procedure of the Superior Court and prescribing the duties of its judges and officers and the times and places of holding court. In conformity with such rules he shall from time to time designate the judges who are to sit in each judicial division and divide the business and assign the cases among all the judges of the court in such manner as will secure the prompt dispatch of the business of the court and equalize the case loads of the several judges, taking into consideration the time required by those judges who have been designated to serve as district court commissioners to perform their duties as such. He shall supervise and direct the officers and employees of the court in the performance of their duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the public has a generalized interest in the processes through which prosecutors make decisions about whom to prosecute that a court can serve by inquiring into the reasons for a requested dismissal.”
2 later decisions 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.