McKeon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 12 Va. App. 476 - Campbell v. Commonwealth (1991), Viney v. Com. (2005)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 Banovitch v. Commonwealth · Cooper v. Commonwealth · Noblett v. Commonwealth · Thacker v. Commonwealth · Glasgow v. Peatross
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he word 'lascivious' describes a state of mind that is eager for sexual indulgence, desirous of inciting to lust or of inciting sexual desire and appetite.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accepting everything [the victim] said as true, the evidence does not warrant a finding that lascivious intent of the defendant has been shown beyond a reasonable doubt. From [the victim’s] description of what happened, there is no evidence that the defendant was sexually aroused; that he made any gestures toward himself or to her; that he made any improper remarks to her; or that he asked her to do anything wrong.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever a statute makes an offense to consist of an act combined with a particular intent, that intent is just as necessary to be proved as the act itself, and must be found as a matter of fact before a conviction can be had. 211 Va. 26 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.