42 Va. App. 776 - Wolfe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
March 2012
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Armstrong · 14 Va. App. 836 - Branch v. Commonwealth · Buchanan v. Commonwealth · 40 Va. App. 184 - Garcia 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[S]o long as the prosecutor has probable cause to believe that the accused committed an offense defined by statute, the decision whether or not to prosecute, and what charge to file or bring before a grand jury, generally rests entirely in his discretion.'”
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.