Commonwealth v. Presley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating it is “the province of the [fact finder], rather than an appellate court,” to weigh facts and judge credibility of witnesses
• “[T]he existence of the criminal agency as the cause of death and the identity of -7- the agency may be established by circumstantial evidence.” (quoting Bowie v. Commonwealth, 184 Va. 381, 390 (1945))
• sovereign immunity did not bar suit against county seeking compensation for damages to property; constitutional section self-executing; property action not a tort action but a contract action and consequently not barred by sovereign immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bolden v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-01-11· cited 376×
• Wactor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-05-28· cited 291×
• Ervin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 147×
• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-20· cited 101×
• Luck v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-18· cited 97×
• Crawford v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-01-13· cited 95×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 88×
• Snow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-21· cited 54×
• Russell Ervin Brown, III v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-05-22· cited 50×
• Conrad v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-11-30· cited 45×
• Charity v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-04-24· cited 40×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-03-19· cited 34×
• Kovalaske v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-05-11· cited 29×
• Robert Allen Hutton v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-11-08· cited 27×
• Shropshire v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-11· cited 22×
• Couture v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-02-12· cited 22×
• Richard C. Wagoner, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-04-08· cited 18×
• Ford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-05-30· cited 15×
• Aaron Markeith Gerald v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-10-17· cited 13×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-02-20· cited 12×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 151×
• Bowie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-10-08· cited 40×
• Tyler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-06-06· cited 38×
• Opanowich v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 25×