Bucolo v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Lloyd (1981), 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell v. Commonwealth (1988)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 Miller v. California · Jenkins v. Georgia · Kois v. Wisconsin · Deen v. Hickman
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nolle prosequi, if entered before jeopardy attaches, neither operates as an acquittal nor prevents further prosecution of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remanded to the trial court for further proceedings in which the standards established in Miller v. California can be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve[d] to deprive them of the exoneration to which [the United States Supreme] Court's reversal ... entitle[d] them.”
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.