Barnes v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “prejudice may be found to result where evidence, inadmissible against a defendant if tried alone, is admitted in a joint trial”
• rejecting the theory that actual prejudice is demonstrated when a co- defendant presents a hostile theory of the case
• “[P]rejudice does not exist merely because a co- defendant has a better chance of acquittal if tried separately ....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-11· cited 27×
• Allen v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-02· cited 21×
• 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×
• Pitt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-05· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Moeller
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2007-01-23· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Diaz
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1998-11-12
• Commonwealth v. Rice
  Hanover County Circuit Court· 2010-09-23
• 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

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Zafiro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 2,251×
• United States v. Daniel A. Brugman, United States of America v. Benjamin A. King, A/K/A Bennie
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-05-15· cited 80×
• Novak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 63×
• Arthur W. Tifford v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-01-31· cited 51×
• Goodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 44×
• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-04· cited 34×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-15· cited 13×
• Burgess v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-12-03· cited 5×