Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the appellant bears the burden of “present[ing] a sufficient record to permit a determination whether . . . an alleged error” occurred below
• refusing to consider a transcript because the appellant had “failed to include [it] on appeal to the Court of Appeals”
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's request to withdraw jury-trial waiver where prosecutor opposed the request because the robbery victim was leaving the United States the following Monday to return to his native country for three months
• “the circuit court’s judgment is presumptively correct and the burden is on the appellant to present a sufficient record to permit a determination whether the circuit court committed an alleged error’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hobbs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-09· cited 220×
• City of Newport News Department of Social Services v. Winslow
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-20· cited 212×
• Gary Alexander Cuffee v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-01-08· cited 116×
• John v. Wong Shik Im
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-03-01· cited 83×
• Hubbard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-05-15· cited 36×
• Clarke v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-05-15· cited 29×
• In Re Carpitcher
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-24· cited 10×
• Heinrich Schepers GmbH & Co. v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 7×
• Lightfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 6×
• COKES v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-06-10· cited 4×
• Hobbs, Eric Charles
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-09
• Naugle v. Miller
  Virginia Beach County Circuit Court· 2004-12-02
• Eckard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2024-08-01
• Rachel Virk v. Gary L. Clements
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-08-13

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Justis v. Young
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-04-24· cited 169×
• Davis v. Mullins
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-01-12· cited 120×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-08· cited 109×
• Lenz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 98×
• Fredericksburg Construction Co. v. J.W. Wyne Excavating, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-09· cited 75×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-06-17· cited 75×
• Cunningham v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-04-27· cited 72×
• Lovitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 71×
• Walton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-06-05· cited 58×
• White v. Morano
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 53×
• Burlile v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 36×
• Oliver v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-04-17· cited 35×
• Robertson v. Superintendent of Wise Correctional Unit
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-06-10· cited 34×
• Berean Law Group, P.C. v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-04-21· cited 32×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 31×
• Wagner v. Shird
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-04-16· cited 28×
• McDonald v. National Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 27×
• Herbert Williams, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 4×