Acey v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that larceny statute “did nothing more than make the punishment for larceny of a firearm more severe than that for petit larcenies” and that the “definition of larceny remains unaffected”
• analyzing the gravamen of an offense in considering “the unit of prosecution by which the state may assess punishment”
• finding simultaneous possession of multiple firearms does not justify multiple convictions for possession because the possession of a firearm by a felon is, of itself, the dangerousness that is the gravamen of the offense of possession
• “Whether the felon bears one or one hundred firearms, the felon is ‘dangerously armed.’”
• “If the possession of a firearm by a felon is, of itself, the dangerous act, the number of weapons with which a felon is armed becomes irrelevant. Whether the felon bears one or one hundred firearms, the felon is ‘dangerously armed.’”
• finding \no appreciable lapse of time\ between larcenous acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Whitmer
  California Supreme Court· 2014-07-24· cited 91×
• People v. Carter
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-12-02· cited 88×
• Johnson, Ronald v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2016-12-08· cited 52×
• Coates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 30×
• Millard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-12-28· cited 21×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-03-20· cited 19×
• Bragg v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-09· cited 18×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-11-29· cited 16×
• Howard Allen Groffel v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-08-20· cited 15×
• Alexander J. Dennos, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-03-11· cited 11×
• Hudgins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 8×
• State v. Alvarez-Lopez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2003-02-04· cited 5×
• In Re Rhodes
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-09-14· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Simone
  Portsmouth County Circuit Court· 2003-10-10· cited 3×
• Thomas Wayne Clay v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-09-25· cited 1×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-11-01
• Akeem Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Winchester County Circuit Court· 1999-10-15
• Commonwealth v. Bechtler
  Rockingham County Circuit Court· 2001-05-25
• Commonwealth v. Weatherholtz
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-11-18

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-14· cited 210×
• Bright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-05-19· cited 153×
• Ridley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 139×
• United States v. John Preston Rosenbarger, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-06-23· cited 134×
• Shears v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-05· cited 116×
• United States v. Edwin Kinsley, United States of America v. Michael Guerra
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-06-27· cited 91×
• Wackwitz v. Roy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 64×
• Dunlavey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-11-19· cited 62×
• Kelsoe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 61×
• Cartwright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 55×
• Mayhew v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-06-13· cited 50×
• Welch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-22· cited 47×
• Richardson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-09-02· cited 43×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-05-11· cited 41×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-10-19· cited 33×
• State v. Auwae
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1998-09-21· cited 28×
• Hill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-12· cited 26×
• Slater v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-03-02· cited 26×