Cotton v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that felony child abuse that causes death does not merge with felony murder into a single offense
• “[t]his doctrine of merger was not widely accepted . . . [and] [t]he doctrine has never been applied in Virginia”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Godsey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-11-29· cited 198×
• State of Iowa v. Keyon Harrison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2018-06-22· cited 118×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 88×
• Kennemore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 18×
• Hylton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-04-10· cited 10×
• Timoth Woodard v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 4×
• United States v. Smallbear
  D. New Mexico· 2005-04-26· cited 1×
• Flanders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-02-13

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Blythe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 81×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Dalton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 65×
• Haskell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 62×
• Wooden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 59×
• Heacock v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 56×
• People v. La Marca
  New York Court of Appeals· 1957-07-03· cited 45×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-24· cited 44×
• State v. Shock
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1878-10-15· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Montague
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 18×