Lillard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Commonwealth · Mullins 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“occasion for it must be very cogent, or, as some courts have said, there must be an absolute necessity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State
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.