Strawderman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth (1987), Coppola v. Commonwealth (1979)
6 federal appellate · 41 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 Ramsey v. Commonwealth · Bailey v. Commonwealth · McCall v. Commonwealth · Newton v. City of Richmond · Southern Railway Co. v. Mauzy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Suffice it to say, as conceded by the accused, the instruction as given has been approved by this court. Hence, it was not error to give the instruction. It should be remembered, however, that on numerous occasions we have stated that instructions attempting to define reasonable doubt should be discouraged as it is highly probable that any definition devised would be less illuminating than the expression itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If any person carnally know a female of sixteen years of age or more against her will, by force, or carnally .know a female child under that age * * *, he shall, in the discretion of the court or jury, be punished with death, or confinement in the penitentiary for life, or for any term not less than five years. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is universally held that ... [in cases of rape] the prosecution must prove that there has been an actual penetration to some extent of the male sexual organ into the female sexual organ.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. State · Hunt v. Woodson
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.