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.

• allowing the admission of acts of incestuous intercourse - 8 - occurring during a period of several years prior to the date of the offense on trial
• “The fact that some of the other offenses were remote in point of time from the áct under investigation does not of itself render such evidence incompetent, where the acts were repeatedly done up to a comparatively recent period and were all apparently inspired by one purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wolery
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1976-06-02· cited 520×
• Ortiz v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 111×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Perry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-09· cited 97×
• Yeatts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-09-20· cited 92×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 65×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-10-26· cited 51×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 27×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-08-25· cited 25×
• Blount v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-04-23· cited 23×
• Cumbee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-04-20· cited 20×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-08-14· cited 18×
• Livingston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-02-13· cited 7×
• Marshall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-11-04· cited 4×
• Luster v. Isaac
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 1987-04-22
• Commonwealth v. Oliver
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1993-05-10
• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2015-12-02
• Commonwealth v. Pacheco
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2016-03-15
• Jeffrey Douglas Cheripka v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-09-19
• State of Tennessee v. Tony Thomas and LaRonda Turner
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2024-03-07

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-06-21· cited 125×
• Russo v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 36×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-11-19· cited 34×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-01-08· cited 31×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 23×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-01-14· cited 23×
• Potts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1952-09-18· cited 15×