Adams v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence that defendant in manslaughter case committed adultery with the victim’s wife is admissible
• holding similar questions proper where witnesses admitted to sexual relations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Corvin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 128×
• Tatum v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-01-25· cited 73×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-12-17· cited 56×
• Lewis v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-03-03· cited 55×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-19· cited 28×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-01· cited 27×
• Banks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-31· cited 24×
• Barber v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-06-14· cited 23×
• Largin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 19×
• Kevin Lamont Lambert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-10-15

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bailey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-06-16· cited 62×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 49×
• Dodson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 36×
• Fleenor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-10-13· cited 29×
• Compton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-10-10· cited 28×
• Hale v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 22×
• Brann v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-03-08· cited 18×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-01-17· cited 16×
• Callahan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-03-12· cited 14×
• Barnard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 7×