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.

• holding that when a case must be retried because of trial error, a “discuss[ion][of] the [sufficiency of the] evidence ... would only be proper if, upon it, no other verdict, save that of ‘not guilty,’ could properly be reached”

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Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Darnell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 237×
• Coppola v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 162×
• Parsons v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-06-13· cited 50×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 44×
• McMillan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-11-22· cited 16×
• Stumpf v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 10×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Madeiros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-03-29· cited 133×
• Sims v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 79×
• People v. McNamara
  California Supreme Court· 1892-05-12· cited 30×
• Cook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1904-11-15· cited 9×