4 Va. App. 303 - Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2017
18 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 2 Va. App. 392 - Carter v. Commonwealth · Cunningham v. Smith · Kibert v. Commonwealth · Cave v. Cunningham · Boaze 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Right to Jury; Duty of Court in Nonjury Trial. — The accused is entitled to a trial by jury only in a circuit court on a plea of not guilty. (b) Waiver of Jury in Circuit Court. — If an accused who has pleaded not guilty in a circuit court consents to trial without a jury, the court may, with the concurrence of the Commonwealth’s attorney, try the case without a jury. The court shall determine before trial that the accused’s consent was voluntarily and intelligently given, and his consent and the concurrence of the court and the Commonwealth’s attorney shall be entered of record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the scheme mandated by our constitution and augmented by statute and the Rules of the Supreme Court, circuit courts must assume that trial will be by jury unless and until the accused knowingly and intelligently waives that right. . . . Unless the circuit courts are willing to accept delay and the inconvenience of rescheduling, they should not transfer to the attorney for the Commonwealth or to defense counsel the sole responsibility to timely determine the need for a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After being first advised by his [sic] counsel and by the Court of his [sic] right to trial by jury, the defendant, in person, knowingly and voluntarily waived a trial by jury and with the concurrence of the Attorney for the Commonwealth and the Court, here entered of record, the court proceeded to try the case without the intervention of a jury, as provided by law.”
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.