Lilly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Lilly v. Virginia (1999), State v. Lynch (2004)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Bagley · Dutton v. Evans · White v. Illinois · Simmons v. South Carolina
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowledge of parole ineligibility rules and exploration of potential jurors' opinions on that subject would be a proper topic for voir dire.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . . Thus, a juror's relationship to such a police officer-witness does not require per se dismissal of that juror from the venire, and the juror may be retained if the trial court is satisfied that the juror can set aside considerations of the relationship and evaluate all the evidence fairly. Id. (citations omitted). See also Core v. Core's Adm'rs, 139 Va. 1, 12-13 , 124 S.E. 453, 456 (1924). [2]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That Mark Lilly's statements were self-serving, in that they tended to shift principal responsibility to others or to offer claims of mitigating circumstances, goes to the [527 U.S. 123] weight the jury could assign to them and not to their admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lilly v. Virginia
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.