Woodard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Godfrey v. Commonwealth (1984)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 · Flanary v. Commonwealth · Heflin 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Attorney General asserts that the July term continuance was similar to one granted on Woodard's motion, which would have been excusable under clause (4) of Code § 19.1-191. This argument is based on the Commonwealth's Attorney's statement at trial that the continuance from the July term to the November term was agreed to in order to benefit Woodard by permitting him to cooperate with law enforcement agents. This position, however, is untenable, for we cannot take cognizance of the Commonwealth's Attorney's statement. The order granting the continuance, containing no suggestion of an agreement, speaks for itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]nadvertence or dereliction [may not be invoked as reasons] to circumvent the legislative determination of the requirements of a speedy trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Com.
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.