11 Va. App. 643 - Snead v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably RF & P CORP. v. Little (1994), 29 Va. App. 548 - Ellis v. Commonwealth (1999)
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 United States v. Murdock · 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 360 - Lambert v. Commonwealth · Scott 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.
““The word [willful] often denotes an act which is intentional, or knowing, or voluntary, as distinguished from accidental. But when used in a criminal statute it generally means an act done with a bad purpose; without justifiable excuse; stubbornly, obstinately, perversely. The word is also employed to characterize a thing done without ground for believing it is lawful.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a person is convicted of petit larceny, and it is . . . found . . . that he has been before sentenced ... for any larceny or any offense deemed to be larceny by the law of the sentencing jurisdiction, he shall be confined in jail not less than thirty days or more than twelve months; for a third, or any subsequent offense, he shall be guilty of a Class six felony.”
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.