Knott v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2016
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 Brooks v. Peyton · Flanary v. Commonwealth · Wadley v. Commonwealth · 353 F. Supp. 1013 - Nail v. Slayton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And, as the Commonwealth says we have held that this enumeration was not intended to exclude other circumstances in pari ratione. Wadley v. Commonwealth, 98 Va. 803 , 35 S.E. 452 (1900). But if circumstances such as those in this case are to be sufficient to justify delay in bringing the accused to trial, the General Assembly must say so. What it says must, of course, comply with the constraints of Article I, § 8, of the Constitution of Virginia and the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. See Nail v. Slayton, 353 F. Supp. 1013 (W. D. Va. 1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since, at all times subsequent to his indictment for the escape felony defendant was held by the Commonwealth in her penal institutions and was available for trial in the court in which the case was pending, we are of the opinion that he was being “held ... for trial” within the meaning of the speedy trial statute and was entitled to claim its protection.”
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.