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.

• holding five years was not too remote
• affirming trial court’s exclusion of evidence showing victim’s alleged prior acts of violence where they were “between 10 and 12 years before the killing, and they involve[d] domestic conduct, not a confrontation of the type [appellant] alleges occurred on the day in question”
• the issue of remoteness, five years here, goes to the weight of the evidence and is a jury question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Blain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 375×
• Avent v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 190×
• Canipe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-14· cited 141×
• State v. Jacoby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-12-21· cited 76×
• Lafon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-30· cited 51×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 33×
• State v. Thibeaux
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-12-15· cited 18×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-03-05· cited 15×
• McMinn v. Rounds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 9×
• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-03· cited 9×
• Daniel Gordon Anderson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-11-06· cited 4×
• LaShaunda Tenika Meekins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-28
• Melissa Nanette Diaz v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-02-27
• Jamar Lafonz Hilliard v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-10-21

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 49×
• Stover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 31×
• Hubbard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-05-01· cited 7×