Government of Virgin Islands v. Lake’s Empirical Analysis
362 F.2d 770 · 1966
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Gordon v. United States (1971), James Edward Kennedy v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden (1973)
45 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 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 Allen v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · People v. Howard · Tucker v. United States · Gann v. State
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A deliberate killing is one which has been planned and reflected upon by the accused and is committed in a cool state of the blood, not in sudden passion engendered by just cause of provocation. It is not required, however, that the accused shall have brooded over his plan to kill or entertained it for any considerable period of time. Although the mental processes involved must take place prior to the killing, a brief moment of thought may be sufficient to form a fixed, deliberate design to kill.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) is perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, torture or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing; or”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not mean simply hatred or particular ill will, but extends to and embraces generally the state of mind with which one commits a wrongful act. . . . [It] may [ ] be inferred from circumstances which show a wanton and depraved spirit, a mind bent on evil mischief without regard to its consequences.”
3 later decisions 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.