O'Dell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland (1997)
9 federal appellate · 170 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Giglio v. United States
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t trial, the court permitted O'Dell to fully develop all pretrial contacts and negotiations Watson had with the Commonwealth. O'Dell was unable to prove a plea agreement existed between Watson and the Commonwealth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia, Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia · O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III“O'Dell told the police the blood came from a nose bleed caused by being struck while attempting to stop a fight at another club,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia, Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia · O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III“the trial court did not err in admitting in evidence the results of the electrophoretic tests,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia, Joseph Roger O'dell, III v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections James S. Gilmore, Iii, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia · O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III
How this case has been treated — in progress
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