Lane v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth (1991), Bolden v. Com. (2008)
77 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 Gillis v. Commonwealth · Slayton v. Commonwealth · Hundley v. Commonwealth · Freeman v. Commonwealth · Eckhart 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my opinion the lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, is a very potent drug. Most drugs are given in milligram amounts. Okay. Most drugs like valium, aspirin are given in milligrams . . . which is about a billionth of an ounce. In LSD the concentration that you need to take is one, is micrograms, that’s one trillionth of an ounce. That is one hundred times more potent that most of your drugs right off the bat. The effect that it actually does, it is called a hallucinogenic and it causes your senses to become very distorted. It can make you do some very erratic things, and it’s quite unpredictable in its effects. You may do some very bizarre things. The effects of LSD has been reported to cause a person from, or hallucinogenics in general, I should say, have been, have made people go as far as to tear their eyes right out of their sockets, chew off an arm, jump out of windows, do some really . . . bizarre things.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the presence and character of the substance was known to the defendant and subject to his dominion and control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cordon v. Com.“may be shown by evidence of the acts, statements or conduct of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cordon v. Com.
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.