Bell v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• not error for court to refuse instruction defining “fault” in self-defense context because “[i]t encompasses any form of conduct on the part of an accused which a jury may reasonably infer from the evidence to have contributed to an affray”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• 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×
• Foster v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-12-10· cited 69×
• Bolyard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-11-13· cited 8×
• Stanlee Sebastian Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-11-05

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Williford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 152×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Sims v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 79×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 66×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 49×
• Perricllia v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-03-08· cited 46×
• Dodson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 36×
• Braxton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 26×
• Patler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 22×
• Blankenship v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-04-21· cited 16×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 16×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-03-15· cited 3×