8 Va. App. 336 - Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2015
14 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 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth · Stamper v. Commonwealth · Pritchard v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 211 - Hairston v. Commonwealth · Mitchell 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully swears falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing, ... he is guilty of perjury, punishable as a Class 5 felony.” Code § 18.2-435, on the other hand, relates to a very specific form of perjury which occurs when a person gives conflicting testimony on separate occasions as to the same matter. As such, it requires only proof that "any person, with the intent to testify falsely, to knowingly give testimony under oath as to any material matter or thing and subsequently to give conflicting testimony under oath as to the same matter or thing.” 4 . This Court has previously held that "Code §§ 18.2-434 and 18.2-435 define separate and distinct perjury offenses,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The indictment or information shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement, (1) naming the accused, (2) describing the offense charged, (3) identifying the county, city or town in which the accused committed the offense, and (4) reciting that the accused committed the offense on or about a certain date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully swears falsely on such occasion touching any material matter or thing ... he shall be guilty of perjury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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