Davis v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter in death by starvation and exposure of his elderly mother, where defendant breached implied contract to care for mother, in return for which he was allowed to live in mother’s home and share her social security benefits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Madison
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-05-03· cited 182×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-06-11· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-03-05· cited 99×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-21· cited 99×
• Wood v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-11-23· cited 95×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 92×
• Barker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 91×
• Bennett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 79×
• Novak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 63×
• Smoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Holloway
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-09-05· cited 61×
• Naulty v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-07-15· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Pestinikas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-10· cited 47×
• State v. Miranda
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-06-30· cited 46×
• Knight v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-12· cited 45×
• Conway v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 45×
• Moreno v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-29· cited 41×
• Stotler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-07-01· cited 33×
• Vaughan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 18×
• Anderson v. Dillman
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2019-03-21· cited 17×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 88×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Lomax v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 41×
• Cox v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-04-27· cited 41×
• Gooden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 40×
• Gilchrist v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 38×
• Goodman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-01-16· cited 32×
• United States v. Donna Dale Coffman, Joan Marie Turner
  Tenth Circuit· 1981-01-16· cited 31×
• Biddle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-04-26· cited 26×
• Richardson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-03-12· cited 23×
• Pierce v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 21×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-03-08· cited 18×
• United States v. James G. Barnes
  Eighth Circuit· 1980-11-05· cited 7×