Allen v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an appellate court considers both the proffers at the pretrial hearing and the evidence presented at trial when affirming a ruling made prior to trial
• finding no merit to defendant's claim that he was prejudiced by joint trial because case against co-defendant allegedly was stronger than case against defendant
• first quoting Randolph v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 345, 363 (1997); and then quoting Zafiro v. United States, 506 U.S. 534, 541 (1993)
• first quoting Randolph v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 345, 363 (1997); and then quoting Zafiro v. United States, 506 U.S. 534, 541 (1993)
• also holding that an appellate court may not rely on evidence presented at trial to reverse a pretrial joinder ruling unless the defendant renewed his objection to joinder at the conclusion of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shavis Donta Holloman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-08-11· cited 38×
• Henderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-02-28· cited 22×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2019-08-30
• Keith Elwood Hargrove v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-05-02
• Jesiah Flowers v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-03-18

Cites

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

• Zafiro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 2,251×
• Nelson v. O'NEIL
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-01· cited 427×
• United States v. Brooks
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-02-28· cited 363×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Grattan v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-11-05· cited 314×
• United States v. Akin Akinkoye, A/K/A A. Sam Akins, United States of America v. Nouyibatou Afolabi
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-07-19· cited 176×
• Emerson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 160×
• United States v. Eldon Han
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-02-05· cited 158×
• DePriest v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-08-04· cited 149×
• United States v. Robert Rollins
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-19· cited 73×
• United States v. Hargrove
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-04-22· cited 72×
• United States v. Pornpong Vanichromanee
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-08-15· cited 50×
• United States v. Newton
  First Circuit· 2003-04-29· cited 41×
• Dearing v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 27×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-11· cited 27×
• United States v. Shealey
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-04-25· cited 26×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-05-14· cited 24×
• Thomas Gerald Adkins, Sr. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-02-04· cited 18×
• Kevin Lamont Dickerson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-09· cited 12×
• United States v. Cecil Arnold Odom, A/K/A Bud Kelly
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-10-31· cited 11×