Clark 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 defendant’s frequent abuse of the victim, beginning “when she was very young,” contributed to “circumstances of emotional domination”
• noting that the defendant was the victim’s father, who was her primary caregiver, and she feared others would “reject her” if she told
• finding sufficient evidence of “force” to support an aggravated sexual battery conviction where the defendant laid on top of the victim before sexually touching her

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-09· cited 625×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-28· cited 77×
• Bruce Edison Parham v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-04-07· cited 63×
• Ricks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-12-10· cited 56×
• Clarke v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-04-25· cited 56×
• Hargraves v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-01-15· cited 43×
• Sabol v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-10-16· cited 40×
• Guda v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-17· cited 35×
• Prince Adjei v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-09-23· cited 31×
• Ludwig v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-13· cited 20×
• Hucks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 18×
• Hsiu Tsai v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-22· cited 15×
• Eugene Harry Proctor, III v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-01· cited 10×
• Scialdone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-29· cited 9×
• Fritter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-03-29· cited 8×
• Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-09-02· cited 8×
• Bower v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-08-21· cited 4×
• Benyo v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-20· cited 3×
• Allen Lamont Harris v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-29· cited 2×
• Edwards Jones, s/k/a Edward S. Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Traverso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 199×
• Floyd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 170×
• Jacques v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-06-04· cited 145×
• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 101×
• Bailey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1886-06-17· cited 54×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-02-16· cited 51×