Wolfenbarger v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2010
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Duncan v. O'NAN · In re the Estate of Rougeron · Bedell v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Schulman · Thompson v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[Nothing in the Judicial Amendment] implies that any judge’s powers and authority are limited to the district in which he or she is elected.... [There is] an expectation that district and circuit judges will usually and regularly serve within the respective districts or circuits where they are elected, but they are still members of the same court and have equal capacity to act throughout the Commonwealth, subject to the administrative authority of the respective chief judges and the Chief Justice and subject to the rule-making power of the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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