9 Va. App. 454 - Paris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2018
3 federal appellate · 21 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 United States v. Cronic · Ungar v. Sarafite · Morris v. Slappy · Herrmann v. United States · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only an indigent's right to have the government appoint an attorney to represent him, but also the right of any accused, if he can provide counsel for himself by his own resources . . . to be represented by an attorney of his own choosing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“countervailing state interest . . . in proceeding with prosecutions on an orderly and expeditious basis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decision to grant a motion for a continuance is within the sound discretion of the [trial] court and must be considered in view of the circumstances unique to each case. The [trial] court’s ruling on a motion for a continuance will be rejected on appeal only upon a showing of abuse of discretion and resulting prejudice to the movant.”
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.