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← 41 Va. App. 377 - Barrett (Clark) v. Com.

41 Va. App. 377 - Barrett (Clark) v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2007
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. California · Stone v. Powell · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Perry

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

  1. “[i]t is well established that the choice of offenses for which a criminal defendant will be charged is within the discretion of the Commonwealth's Attorney.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “is being punished for exercising her right to appeal the first set of convictions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “punishment to [her] for having... successfully appealed her initial charges.”
    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.