7 Va. App. 438 - Moten v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 9 Va. App. 394 - Shearer v. Commonwealth (1990), 13 Va. App. 566 - Jones v. Commonwealth (1992)
26 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 Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Ewell · Porter v. United States · United States v. Skillman · Butts 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`stand mute without waiving his rights so long as his actions [do] not constitute a concurrence in or necessitate a delay of the trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a general district court has found that there is probable cause to believe that the accused has committed a felony, the accused, if he is held continuously in custody thereafter, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for such offense if no trial is commenced in the circuit court within five months from the date such probable cause was found by the district court.... If there was no preliminary hearing in the district court, or if such preliminary hearing was waived by the accused, the commencement of the running of the five and nine months periods, respectively, set forth in this section, shall be from the date an indictment or presentment is found against the accused. If an indictment or presentment is found against the accused but he has not been arrested for the offense charged therein, the five and nine months periods, respectively, shall commence to run from the date of his arrest thereon. * * * * * * The provisions of this section shall not apply to such period of time as the failure to try the accused was caused: * * * * * . By continuance granted on the motion of the accused or his counsel, or by concurrence of the accused or his counsel in such a motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth, or by the failure of the accused or his counsel to make a timely objection to such a motion by the attorney for the Commonwealth ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The five month period is computed as 152 and a fraction days.”
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.