Commonwealth v. Alexander

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating in dicta that requisite mental state for assault may be either malice or wantonness (citing Merritt v. Commonwealth, 164 Va. 653, 658-59, 180 S.E. 395, 398 (1935)); Jones v. Commonwealth, 184 Va. 679, 681, 36 S.E. 571, 572 (1946
• “The threat to use deadly force by brandishing a deadly weapon has long been considered an assault.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sands
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-11-02· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 112×
• Com. v. Cary
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-01-13· cited 58×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-03· cited 26×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-30· cited 15×
• State v. David G. Buckley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-05-27· cited 13×
• Nantz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-01-11· cited 10×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-07-06· cited 9×
• United States v. Cuong Gia Le
  E.D. Virginia· 2004-04-30· cited 6×
• People v. Chen
  California Court of Appeal· 2020-06-18

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McGhee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 137×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Blondel v. Hays
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 67×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-01-17· cited 67×
• Alexander v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-12· cited 14×
• Alexander v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-06-29· cited 1×