Commonwealth v. Carter

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Virginia Code § 40.1-103— making it a crime for “any person employing or having custody of any child ... willfully or negligently to cause or permit such child to be placed in a situation that its life, health or morals may be endangered ... ” — was unconstitutionally vague
• Portion of child endangerment statute, § 40.1-103, is unconstitutionally vague but remainder is enforceable.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carosi v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 63×
• Holsapple v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-10-31· cited 63×
• Herrera v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-01· cited 12×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-15· cited 11×
• Mosby v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-08-13· cited 9×
• Ricky Dee Brewster, etc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-29· cited 6×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-06-23· cited 4×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-04-27· cited 2×
• Christina M. Mollenhauer v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-07-06
• James Eberhardt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-12-14
• Commonwealth v. Hyatt
  Virginia Beach County Circuit Court· 1995-11-29
• Commonwealth v. Dick
  Winchester County Circuit Court· 1998-12-03
• Commonwealth v. Dumont
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-04-30
• City of Chesapeake v. Evans
  Chesapeake County Circuit Court· 2015-09-29

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Smith v. Goguen
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 1,514×
• Woolfolk v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-23· cited 110×
• Woodfin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 108×
• Pedersen v. City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-04-20· cited 69×
• Willis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-06-05· cited 67×
• Coleman v. City of Richmond
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-01-19· cited 67×
• Weber v. State Bar
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 61×
• Perkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-05· cited 52×
• Stein v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-12· cited 42×
• Coleman v. City of Richmond
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-05-17· cited 32×
• Bishop v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-11· cited 21×