Cruz v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “In some cases, the Commonwealth’s claim of prejudice may be stark and dramatically evident as when a crucial witness would be unavailable, for whatever reason, in the future. In such an instance, the ability of the Commonwealth to prove its case would be clearly prejudiced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Graham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-07· cited 63×
• State v. Kaulia
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2013-01-04· cited 49×
• Hubbard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-05-15· cited 36×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-06-15· cited 20×
• Juan Daniel Vaca Diez Nunez v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-03-22· cited 13×
• Durant v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-15· cited 9×
• Donkor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-13· cited 7×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-08-18· cited 6×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-10-28· cited 5×
• Daymon Ruffin, s/k/a Damion Ruffin v. CW
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-03-06· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Hensh
  Page County Circuit Court· 2009-03-12

Cites

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

• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Taylor v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 580×
• Crosby v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-13· cited 239×
• Rooney v. First Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-11· cited 214×
• United States v. John Tortora, United States of America v. Samuel Santoro
  Second Circuit· 1972-07-24· cited 195×
• United States v. Peterson
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-08-19· cited 145×
• Agosti v. Huge
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-26· cited 126×
• Quintana v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 114×
• United States v. Edwin Houtchens
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-02-14· cited 93×
• United States v. Frederick Charles Latham, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1989-05-10· cited 92×
• United States v. Edward Pastor and Martin Weiner
  Second Circuit· 1977-05-19· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-07-30· cited 75×
• United States v. Damian Pena Benavides
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-06-04· cited 64×
• Santoro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-11· cited 61×
• Noell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 54×
• Head v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-09-16· cited 45×
• United States v. Joel Beltran-Nunez
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-09-22· cited 39×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 32×
• United States v. George N. Muzevsky
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-04-17· cited 29×