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← 54 Va. App. 730 - Carroll v. Commonwealth

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.

  1. “[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 passage
  2. “[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 dissent
  3. “[p]robation shall include any substance abuse counseling, testing, and/or treatment as prescribed by the Probation Officer.”
    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.