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← 40 Va. App. 52 - Lamb v. Commonwealth

40 Va. App. 52 - Lamb v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Grant v. Commonwealth · McDaniel v. Commonwealth · 33 Va. App. 47 - O'Banion v. Commonwealth · 32 Va. App. 506 - Merritt v. Commonwealth · Robertson v. Rogers

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

  1. “The obvious purpose of both the amendment to Code § 18.2-10 and Code § 19.2-295.2 is to provide for a period of at least six months' supervision after parole was abolished for felons upon their release from active incarceration.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “conditioned upon successful completion of a period of post-release supervision pursuant to § 19.2-295.2 and compliance with such other terms as the sentencing court may require.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “a felon who would have served a term of incarceration after the abolition of parole [could be] released into the community without any supervision.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.