Coles v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[Courts] are not permitted ‘to add or to subtract from the words used in the statute’” (quoting Posey v. Commonwealth, 123 Va. 551, 553 (1918))
• “[W]e must . . . assume . . . the legislature chose, with care, the words it used when it enacted the relevant statute.” (quoting Barr v. Town & Country Properties, Inc., 240 Va. 292, 295 (1990))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).