25 Va. App. 19 - Baker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2017
19 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited · Stanley's Cafeteria, Inc. v. Abramson · Godfrey v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 606 - Cantwell 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. By the witnesses for the Commonwealth being enticed or kept away, or prevented from attending by sickness or accident; [or] # ‡ # 4. By continuance granted on the motion of the accused or his counsel, or by concurrence of the accused or his counsel in such a motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth, or by the failure of the accused or his counsel to make a timely objection to such a motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth ... [.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although in setting its docket the trial court should consider counsel's available dates and whether the date selected is convenient for counsel, absent defendant's request for a continuance or concurrence in [or failure to object to] the Commonwealth's request[,] or waiver of the right to a speedy trial, the trial judge has the responsibility to commence the trial within the statutorily specified time regardless of whether the date is convenient for counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prove that the delay was based on 'one of the reasons enumerated in [Code § 19.2-243] or on appellant's waiver, actual or implied, of his right to be tried within the designated period.'”
1 later decision 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.