6 Va. App. 360 - Lambert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2018
20 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Murdock · United States v. Bishop · Lynch v. Commonwealth · United States v. Coggins
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the failure to act was intentional or by design”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a criminal statute, “willfully” ordinarily means designedly, intentionally or perversely. “[T]he correct application [of willfully] in a particular case will generally depend upon the character of the act involved and the attending circumstances.” ... In the absence of direct evidence of intent, willfulness must be established through circumstances.”
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.