Boyd v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a conviction because the three heroin sales were not part of a general scheme
• reversing a conviction because the three heroin sales were not part of a general scheme
• prior “unrelated” drug sales by the accused to unnamed purchasers at unspecified locations “a few days” preceding the offense then before the court
• prior \unrelated\ drug sales by the accused to unnamed purchasers at unspecified locations \a few days\ preceding the offense then before the court
• evidence of two prior sales of heroin was unrelated to the sale for which the defendant was standing trial and therefore inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Guill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 107×
• Donahue v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 87×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-06· cited 71×
• Wilkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 67×
• Eccles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 52×
• Spence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 46×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 43×
• Godwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 40×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-03-03· cited 36×
• Blaylock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-17· cited 33×
• Dunbar v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-30· cited 32×
• Cooper v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-29· cited 31×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-14· cited 29×
• Henderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 29×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-22· cited 27×
• Rider v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-22· cited 23×
• Morris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-04-07· cited 20×
• Simpson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-02-04· cited 19×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×