Adkins 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 mentally retarded persons are not per se incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse
• holding that the evidence failed to prove that the victim was mentally incapacitated when she testified that she had “made love” with the defendant and used words like “penis” and “vagina,” demonstrating her understanding of the sexual act
• applying the plain meanings of “understand,” “nature,” and “consequence” in construing the term “mental incapacity” under a different statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Molina v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-10· cited 79×
• Zook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 16×
• Raymeka Monique White v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-12-05· cited 10×
• Nicholson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-07-13· cited 9×
• Sanford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-07-14· cited 8×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-12-17· cited 7×
• E.C. v. Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice
  Stafford County Circuit Court· 2014-02-10· cited 2×
• John Ian Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-10-28
• Catherine Ann Tomlin, a/k/a, etc. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-03-15
• Desper v. Woodson
  Augusta County Circuit Court· 2014-03-13

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• State v. Ortega-Martinez
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 224×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-12-02· cited 180×
• Feigley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-13· cited 85×
• Powers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 71×
• Simpson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 70×
• State v. Johnson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-09-15· cited 48×
• State v. Olivio
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-05-01· cited 44×
• People v. Easley
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-06-16· cited 40×
• Walrod v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 30×
• Thorpe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 23×
• People v. McMullen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-03· cited 23×
• Toro v. City of Norfolk
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-31· cited 14×
• Meade v. Belcher
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-04-24· cited 7×
• Haydon v. Goode
  Virginia Chancery Court· 1809-09-15· cited 1×