Brown v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “It has long been held in Virginia that where an officer attempts an unlawful arrest, the officer is an aggressor[,] which gives the arrestee the right to use self-defense to resist so long as the force used is reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCracken v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-11-26· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 56×
• Brown v. City of Danville
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-21· cited 53×
• Crislip v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-10-30· cited 24×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-10-19· cited 19×
• Timothy Lawrence Doscoli v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-06-21· cited 19×
• Patrick J. Mannix, s/k/a Patrick J.Mannix,Sr. v. CW
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-01-04· cited 7×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-10-16· cited 3×
• Bristol v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-05-03· cited 3×
• Bristol v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-05-31· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2000-06-30· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Short
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2001-03-27
• Commonwealth v. Patterson
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-11-06

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 907×
• Hill v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 764×
• Shears v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-05· cited 116×
• Diffendal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-18· cited 91×
• Foote v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-18· cited 55×
• DeChene v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 48×
• Polk v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-08-04· cited 40×
• Yeatts v. Minton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 27×
• Barnette v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-12-10· cited 9×