Watkins v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• enforcement of plea agreement not compelled absent some performance by defendant, because defendant’s right to trial by jury remains sufficient remedy to government’s withdrawal from agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-02· cited 8×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2000-09-19· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2004-03-12
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Alexandria County Circuit Court· 2007-11-02

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Mabry v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 1,007×
• United States v. Michael Lee Harvey
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-05-22· cited 295×
• United States v. William Eugene Carter
  Fourth Circuit· 1972-01-27· cited 181×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Raymond Scotland and St. Clair Springette. Appeal of St. Clair Springette
  Third Circuit· 1980-02-06· cited 102×
• State v. Brockman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-21· cited 96×
• Workman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1979-01-16· cited 50×
• Shields v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1977-05-13· cited 46×
• People v. Navarroli
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-03-23· cited 44×
• United States v. James Lewis Savage
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-11-03· cited 43×
• Morton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-08-29· cited 40×
• People v. MacRander
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-03-28· cited 38×
• Giles v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-11· cited 34×
• United States v. Gordon Wallace Coon, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-11-21· cited 29×
• People v. Heiler
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1977-11-22· cited 26×
• Sassower v. Mahoney
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-19· cited 20×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 16×
• Gardner v. Warden of Virginia State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-09-11· cited 13×
• WA JONES v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 12×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 12×