27 Va. App. 473 - Watkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 19 Va. App. 192 - Mosley v. Mosley · 23 Va. App. 38 - Burfoot v. Commonwealth · Arnold v. Commonwealth · Arnold v. Com. · 19 Va. App. 143 - Arnold 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the trial court enters a nolle prosequi of an indictment, it lays `to rest that indictment and the underlying warrant without disposition, as though they had never existed. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the situation was the same as if `the Commonwealth had chosen to make no charge'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`new charge[], distinct from the original charge[]....'”
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.