46 Va. App. 408 - Wilson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Goodwin · Offutt v. United States · Air Courier Conference of America v. American Postal Workers Union · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · United States v. Hyde
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a statute prescribes a maximum imprisonment penalty and the sentence does not exceed that maximum, the sentence will not be overturned as being an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not going to have a court-appointed lawyer who practices that way in this court building,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.