Crews 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 evidence was sufficient to establish structure was permanently affixed to realty because it showed the trailer rested on a cinder-block foundation and had electric service
• holding that the defendant's attempt to sell recently stolen goods amounted to a \conscious assertion of a possessory interest\ in the property for the purpose of establishing the larceny inference
• attempting to sell stolen property shows conscious assertion of a possessory interest
• evidence that a school bus was used for storage and had a back-door handle with a security lock was insufficient to establish that it was permanently affixed to the ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-14· cited 210×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-24· cited 59×
• Allard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-28· cited 48×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-05-11· cited 41×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-04-18· cited 30×
• Bray v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-02-13· cited 28×
• Mason v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-20· cited 23×
• Frere v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-01-03· cited 23×
• Sylvestre v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-24· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-20· cited 22×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-09· cited 21×
• Zamani v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-18· cited 15×
• Watson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-21· cited 15×
• Artis v. City of Suffolk
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-11-08· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Knott
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-11· cited 12×
• Dalton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-02· cited 11×
• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-06-20· cited 10×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-22· cited 7×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-19· cited 6×
• Barden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-05-12· cited 6×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-12-02· cited 180×
• Best v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-09-11· cited 47×
• Graybeal v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 35×