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 evidence of “specific acts of illegal and immoral conduct” were “properly excluded” although Clark argued the acts were relevant to the witness’ credibility
• trial court correctly excluded evidence about irrelevant, independent bad acts with no nexus to witness’ bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Muhammad v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-04-22· cited 379×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 128×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 78×
• Ramdass v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-11-05· cited 50×
• Land v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-09-04· cited 46×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 39×
• Blaylock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-17· cited 33×
• Newton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-06· cited 31×
• Moore v. Hinkle
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-03-03· cited 30×
• Hackman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-01-11· cited 30×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-21· cited 28×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-01· cited 27×
• Tasker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 27×
• Banks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-31· cited 24×
• Weimer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-15· cited 22×
• Raisovich v. Giddings
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 18×
• Raymond Louis Harvey, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-02-21· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Kilgore
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-12· cited 7×
• Lambert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-09-12· cited 7×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bradley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-04-25· cited 76×
• Pike v. Eubank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-01-16· cited 51×
• Hundley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-03-10· cited 51×
• McLane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-10-10· cited 49×
• Fenner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-06-13· cited 23×
• Swift v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-10-14· cited 13×