Llamera v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Velazquez v. Commonwealth (2002), 40 Va. App. 104 - Askew v. Commonwealth (2003)
35 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 Webb v. Commonwealth · Cartera v. Commonwealth · Bond v. Commonwealth · Ramsey 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, while it was proper to permit ... [the physician] to testify to the victims' complaints that they had been raped and to state his observations of the girls' physical and emotional conditions, it was improper to permit him to recite the details of the offenses and the description of the assailant, as reported to him by the victims. It was proper also to permit the doctor to state what examinations and tests he performed upon the victims and what medical conclusions he reached as a result. But it was improper to permit the doctor to express his opinion that the girls had been raped. Whether rape had occurred was the precise and ultimate issue in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the admission of expert opinion upon an ultimate issue of fact is impermissible because it invades the function of the fact finder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would suggest that the owner of the cocaine was a person who sold cocaine.”
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.