Commonwealth v. Minor

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a “contested issue about the defendant’s identity” would generally render other crimes evidence logically relevant
• recognizing that a “contested issue about the defendant’s identity” would generally render other crimes evidence logically relevant
• “For such evidence to be admissible under one of these exceptions, the legitimate probative value of the evidence must outweigh its prejudicial effect.”
• evidence implicating an accused in other crimes unrelated to the charged offense may confuse the issues being tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Rose v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 63×
• Gonzales v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-12· cited 58×
• Lewis v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-03-03· cited 55×
• Hurst v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-31· cited 39×
• Shavis Donta Holloman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-08-11· cited 38×
• Cousar v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-28· cited 9×
• Pryor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-06-19· cited 7×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-02-07· cited 7×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-07-18· cited 4×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2015-04-16
• State v. Conaway
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-07-30
• Shannon Shamar Cousett v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-11-05
• William Howard Robinson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-07-07
• Jason Laufetette Brooks v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-04-13
• Commonwealth v. McMillian
  Chesapeake County Circuit Court· 2008-08-28
• Commonwealth v. Schaerfl
  Amherst County Circuit Court· 2008-11-03
• Commonwealth v. Lamb
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2015-04-24
• Commonwealth v. Severance
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2015-06-22
• Commonwealth v. Holloway
  Chesapeake County Circuit Court· 2016-04-08

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 320×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• Lovely v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1948-08-10· cited 213×
• Satcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 188×
• United States v. Luther Amos Beahm
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-11-18· cited 136×
• State v. Hatcher
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-06-25· cited 133×
• Guill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 107×
• State v. Alsteen
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1982-10-05· cited 78×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 65×
• Eccles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 52×
• Winfield v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 47×
• Bryant v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-04-25· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-04-12· cited 33×
• State v. Ayer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-09-01· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-02-10· cited 29×
• Clifton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-26· cited 27×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 23×
• Scates v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-11-02· cited 21×