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← 259 Va. 47 - Cantrell v. Crews

Cantrell v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
January 2014
most recently cited

31 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Vinson v. Commonwealth · Temple v. Moses · Mastin v. Theirjung · City of Virginia Beach v. Giant Square Shopping Center Co.

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[p]ublic confidence in the integrity of the process is at stake. It cannot be promoted when a sitting juror is, at the time of trial, a client of the law firm representing one of the parties[.]”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “confidence in the integrity of the judicial process”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Under these circumstances, it is extremely unlikely the public would have confidence in the integrity of the process when a commissioner has the identity of interests demonstrated by this prospective commissioner. This is true even though, as the record shows, the commissioner is a “respected member of the community” and “known to be a man of integrity,” who may be determined to discharge his duties in a forthright and unbiased manner.”
    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.