Alger 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 trial courts may properly consider victim impact statements when determining the appropriate amount of restitution owed by a defendant
• holding that courts may properly consider victim impact statements when determining the appropriate amount of restitution owed by a defendant
• finding no abuse of discretion in trial court’s “accepting the amounts paid by the insurance company and the deductible as proper for purposes of restitution”
• restitution statutes to be read in pari materia with victim impact statute which defines \victim\ as \an individual ... who has suffered ... economic harm\ from the crimes.
• restitution statutes to be read in pari materia with victim impact statute which defines “victim” as “an individual ... who has suffered ... economic harm” from the crimes.
• “In the sentencing phase of a case, the trial court may rely upon hearsay testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moreno v. Moreno
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-02-11· cited 175×
• Kilby v. Culpeper County Department of Social Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-10-27· cited 75×
• Moses v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-05· cited 44×
• Rasmussen v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-12-28· cited 36×
• McCullough v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-27· cited 30×
• Dalo v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-11-20· cited 22×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-05-16· cited 18×
• Vasaio v. Department of Motor Vehicles
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 18×
• State v. Gardiner
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1995-06-09· cited 17×
• Evelyn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-10-25· cited 15×
• Burriesci v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-11-08· cited 13×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-20· cited 13×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-11-13· cited 13×
• Billips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-06-06· cited 12×
• Cephas Leon Blunt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-04-23· cited 11×
• Torri S. Waiters v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-14· cited 9×
• Bazemore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-26· cited 9×
• Keland Oneal Shelton, s/k/a Keland O'Neal Shelton v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-02-09· cited 8×
• Edward Hines Sigler v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-04-02· cited 7×
• Morris v. Virginia Retirement System
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-12· cited 7×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Carmine Fatico, and Daniel Fatico
  Second Circuit· 1978-06-12· cited 249×
• United States v. Bertie Alexander Wright
  First Circuit· 1989-04-27· cited 230×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• People v. Foster
  California Court of Appeal· 1993-03-09· cited 82×
• Deal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-29· cited 77×
• Walters v. Littleton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-04-30· cited 49×
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Jewel Tea Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-03-06· cited 41×
• Lillard v. Fairfax County Airport Authority
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-06-12· cited 20×
• Crawford v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 16×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-09-11· cited 14×
• Dickens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-09· cited 13×
• People v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-05-16· cited 11×
• Revell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-04-28· cited 4×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-01-25· cited 3×