54 Va. App. 730 - Carroll v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Santobello v. New York · United States v. Jackson · Lynch v. Overholser
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either question [presented in Carroll's petition] asks us to consider whether the trial court's decision finding that Carroll was in violation of his probation was a breach of the terms of the plea agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll v. Com.“[a]t its core, Carroll's argument is that an Alford plea, by its nature, contains an implicit promise that the defendant will never be required to admit his guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Carroll v. Com.“[p]robation shall include any substance abuse counseling, testing, and/or treatment as prescribed by the Probation Officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll v. Com.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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