Cantrell 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] conflict of interest on the part of the prosecution” violates the Due Process Clause of the Virginia Constitution
• holding that a private prosecutor may not have a “civil interest in the case”
• recognizing “[t]he policy arguments advanced by the defendant for a total prohibition of privately employed prosecutors may have a sound basis in considerations of public policy”
• noting private prosecutor represented family of victim' in a child custody suit against the defendant
• private prosecutor who has a civil interest in the case “so infects the prosecution with the possibility that private vengeance has been substituted for impartial application of the criminal law, that prejudice to the defendant need not be shown”
• discussing relevant circumstantial considerations to the issue of identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 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×
• Juniper v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-03-03· cited 345×
• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• Cantrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 186×
• People v. Eubanks
  California Supreme Court· 1996-12-23· cited 167×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 128×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-06-16· cited 98×
• State v. Bennett
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-06-07· cited 77×
• Pabst v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-09-19· cited 70×
• Mullis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 64×
• People v. Vasquez
  California Supreme Court· 2006-07-10· cited 64×
• State v. Eldridge
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1997-05-07· cited 47×
• Fordham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-10-15· cited 45×
• M.E.D. v. J.P.M.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 43×
• Phan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-11-05· cited 40×
• Med v. Jpm
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 40×
• Lux v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-22· cited 37×
• Riner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-06· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-14· cited 29×
• Nicholas v. Sammons
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-11-19· cited 25×

Cites

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

• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Virginia Real Estate Commission v. Bias
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 181×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• Inge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 170×
• State v. Atkins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-07-17· cited 145×
• Bishop v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 118×
• Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-05-30· cited 114×
• Stover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 83×
• Spruill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 78×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Boykins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 51×
• Dean v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1879-07-31· cited 47×
• Griffin v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1924-02-07· cited 41×
• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1888-07-19· cited 31×
• Walrod v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 30×
• Abdell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-04-10· cited 29×
• State Ex Rel. Moran v. Ziegler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 27×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-02-04· cited 21×
• Ferrell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-04-21· cited 17×
• Van Dyke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-04-25· cited 16×