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.

• noting that the required mens rea for assault and battery is “an intention to do bodily harm”
• reciting trial court’s jury instructions, when the defendant was indicted for malicious wounding, but the court then convicted the defendant for assault and battery
• “an intention to injure ... may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional”
• “Intention . . . may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional.”
• “an intention to injure ... may be inferred in law from the consequences that are naturally to be apprehended as the result of the particular act, the doing of which was intentional”
• permitting battery conviction based on reckless driving

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• Farm Bureau Mut. Automobile Ins. Co. v. Hammer
  Fourth Circuit· 1949-10-03· cited 112×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 100×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 100×
• Banovitch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 92×
• Parish v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-06-01· cited 73×
• Gilbert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-02-08· cited 32×
• Richardson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-03-12· cited 23×
• Armstead v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-12-15· cited 16×
• Robert Harley v. Robert Wilkinson
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-02-22· cited 7×
• Holloway v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-10· cited 6×
• Holloway v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-01-26· cited 2×
• Michael Melvin Fary v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-04-18

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tift v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-02-18· cited 29×
• Dennard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1914-04-18· cited 22×
• Levine v. Levine
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-03-18· cited 17×