45 Va. App. 822 - Orndorff v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2020
4 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 Dusky v. United States · Godinez v. Moran · Stockton v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth · 40 Va. App. 255 - Congdon v. Congdon
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.
“was that she's in dire fear because she's a child and she's done something wrong and she has no idea what it is and why she's where she is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.“she could act like she was twelve years old when she got good and ready. . . so she could, you know, beat the doctors at Central State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.“the jury discounted the new diagnosis of DID and sentenced [Orndorff] to far in excess of the minimum sentence for the offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orndorff v. Com.
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.