Landrum v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If death results, and if the act producing it is willfully and maliciously committed, it is wholly immaterial whether the implements used, which produced death, were deadly weapons or not; the crime is murder. “The court properly failed to define the words ‘blunt instrument,’ as they are used in the indictment and the instruction,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bates v. Commonwealth

2. ““Such a defining instruction, however, is not required where death results from the intentional wounding, thereby converting the crime into one of homicide and not one created by and punishable under the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Payne v. Commonwealth