Bailey 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 a defendant must “announce[] his desire for peace” in order to assert a claim of excusable self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Yarborough v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 276×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-14· cited 126×
• Lynn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-12· cited 96×
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 60×
• Carlos Matthew Bell v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-08-02· cited 57×
• Perricllia v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-03-08· cited 46×
• Peeples v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-10-05· cited 37×
• Connell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-27· cited 24×
• Cortez-Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-04-05· cited 19×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-11-30· cited 13×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-07-06· cited 9×
• Gilbert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-11-10· cited 9×
• Peeples v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-29· cited 9×
• Barger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-07-09· cited 8×
• Sands v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-07· cited 4×
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-10-16
• Stanlee Sebastian Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-11-05
• LaShaunda Tenika Meekins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-28
• Gordon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29
• Anthony Patrick Washington v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-10-18

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sims v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 79×
• Dodson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 36×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-05-07· cited 11×
• Barnard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 7×