David v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a trial court abused its discretion when a juror’s rehabilitation consisted solely of the juror’s “mere assent to the court’s leading questions”
• finding that the use of a peremptory strike did not make the error harmless but also finding that, if the juror would have been rehabilitated from the declared bias, then the circuit court would not have committed a reversable error in refusing to strike her for cause
• juror impartiality a factual determination, disturbed on appeal only for “manifest error”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Busby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 105×
• Nelson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-02· cited 27×
• Bradbury v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 22×
• Cecilio DeLeon v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-06-25· cited 22×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-23· cited 22×
• Green v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-27· cited 21×
• Hopson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-10· cited 17×
• Brooks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-09-09· cited 14×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-10· cited 9×
• Russell Hopson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-10
• Thomas Edward Clark v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-10-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Breeden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 125×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 76×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1879-12-04· cited 42×
• Parsons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-01-17· cited 39×
• Educational Books, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 29×
• Bausell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-09-19· cited 19×