Byrd 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 a breach of the peace is “the offense of disturbing the public peace or a violation of public order or public decorum”
• “When one is called to assist an officer he, during the time that duty rests upon him, is justified in doing whatever the officer himself might lawfully do”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bryson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 53×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-11-28· cited 29×
• Fierst v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 28×
• Yeatts v. Minton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 27×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 18×
• Mercer v. Winston
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-10-08· cited 17×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-06-05· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Morrissey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-01-31· cited 15×
• Bowman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-03-07· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Twombly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-01-05· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Addison
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1995-06-02· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Borek
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-08-04· cited 2×
• United States v. Mullen
  E.D. Virginia· 1967-12-28· cited 2×
• Jordan v. Peyton
  W.D. Virginia· 1967-02-22· cited 1×
• Jones v. Superintendent, Virginia State Farm
  W.D. Virginia· 1973-07-05· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Richards
  Winchester County Circuit Court· 1987-01-13
• Commonwealth v. Accardi
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2001-12-10
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-11-10

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Spalding v. Preston
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1848-04-15· cited 52×
• Muscoe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-01-09· cited 38×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-09-23· cited 18×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-06-25· cited 9×