Ballard v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that jury sentencing was a purely statutory right
• a court \will not overturn a ... classification on equal protection grounds unless [the statute] is so unrelated to the achievement of a legitimate purpose that it [is] irrational\
• a court “will not overturn a . . . classification on equal protection grounds unless [the statute] is so unrelated to the achievement of a legitimate purpose that it [is] irrational”
• sentence in criminal prosecution of an adult is “fixed” by jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-06-12· cited 87×
• Novak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 63×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 59×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 54×
• Duncan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 48×
• Nuckoles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-06· cited 48×
• Last v. Virginia State Board of Medicine
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-28· cited 45×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-30· cited 35×
• Benderson Development Co. v. Sciortino
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 34×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-04-27· cited 10×
• Elliott Thomas Webb, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-02-24· cited 3×
• Cox Cable Hampton Roads, Inc. v. City of Norfolk
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-01-07· cited 2×
• NUCKLOES v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-06
• Last v. Virginia State Board of Medicine
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1991-01-31

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-23· cited 3,699×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Vance v. Bradley
  Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 1,449×
• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• State v. Rice
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-07· cited 114×