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.

• holding that \the Blockburger test . . . need not be applied when the intent of the legislature can be gleaned from a reading of the relevant statutes\
• holding that the degree of “force and intimidation” used to detain the victim was “separate and apart from the restraint inherent in the commission of the rape”
• stating courts must determine whether the legislature intended to make each violation a separate offense
• considering both the “time and distance” between the abduction and other offense and the “quality and quantity” of the force and intimidation used to effectuate the abduction and other offense
• degree of “force and intimidation” used to detain victim was “separate and apart from the restraint inherent in the commission of the rape”
• detention not of a type inherent in the commission of rape where it was temporally distinct from the rape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clanton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-03-17· cited 283×
• State v. Salamon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2008-07-01· cited 243×
• Manneh Vay v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-01-31· cited 156×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-17· cited 110×
• Cardwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 93×
• Jones v. Sussex I State Prison
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-15· cited 89×
• Ronald Lee Hoke, Sr. v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Ronald Lee Hoke, Sr. v. J.D. Netherland, Warden
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-08-22· cited 88×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 88×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 68×
• Hoke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-03-03· cited 61×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 60×
• Phoung v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-15· cited 54×
• Hoyt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-07· cited 53×
• Simms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 46×
• Pryor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-04-04· cited 44×
• Steve Whitt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 43×
• Andrews v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-09-16· cited 40×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-11-29· cited 38×
• Coram v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-20· cited 38×
• Bell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-19· cited 34×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• Albernaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 1,588×
• Garrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-28· cited 1,001×
• Nielsen
  Supreme Court· 1889-05-13· cited 642×
• Morey v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 479×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 172×
• State v. Deskins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-12-02· cited 149×
• People v. Scott
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-11-20· cited 148×
• Little v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-21· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Trumble
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-10-15· cited 82×
• State v. Folck
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-10-27· cited 60×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-04-30· cited 58×
• State v. Super. Ct. in & for County of Pima
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-11-21· cited 55×
• State v. Coccomo
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1980-09-26· cited 54×
• Jerry Lee Jordan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-06-02· cited 48×