Ashby 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 proof a person's mouth is on another's penis is insufficient to prove the penis is in the mouth
• finding that the victim’s testimony using the word “on,” rather than “in,” did not establish penetration
• in prosecution for sodomy, testimony that boy’s mouth was merely placed “on” defendant’s “privates” held insufficient to prove penetration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Simon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-03· cited 99×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 74×
• Ryan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 65×
• Horton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 49×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-01-16· cited 38×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-02-05· cited 35×
• Santillo v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-17· cited 26×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-03-10· cited 22×
• De'Armond v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-27· cited 21×
• Proctor v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1996-11-07· cited 17×
• Hewitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-03-05· cited 16×
• Shull v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-29· cited 15×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-03-06· cited 14×
• Edenton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 14×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 13×
• Rouzie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-08-28· cited 12×
• Comer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-09-04· cited 11×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-30· cited 9×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-21· cited 8×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-12-04· cited 116×
• Miles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-09-11· cited 87×
• Stapleton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-09-18· cited 43×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-03-19· cited 5×