Diehl 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 “whether punishment exceeds the bounds of moderation is a question for the trier of the facts”
• holding that punishing a thirteen-year-old boy by severely beating him on the buttocks and head and shackling him to the floor exceeded the bounds of permissible parental discipline
• child shackled to floor of bus and beaten on the head and body, causing death
• “It is settled in Virginia that while a parent has the right to discipline his or her child the punishment must be within the bounds of moderation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Campbell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 275×
• Russell Ervin Brown, III v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-05-22· cited 50×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 32×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-11-23· cited 13×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-11-24· cited 9×
• Hamilton Ex Rel. Lethem v. Lethem
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-02-07· cited 5×
• Pleasants v. Town of Louisa
  W.D. Virginia· 2012-03-12· cited 2×
• Virginia Broadcasting Corp. v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2013-10-31
• James Eberhardt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-12-14
• Osman Osman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-10-25
• Osman Osman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-11-22
• Osman Osman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-02-14

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Mechanik
  Supreme Court· 1986-02-25· cited 987×
• Chandler v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-26· cited 257×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 172×
• State v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-10-31· cited 60×
• Simms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 46×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-10-13· cited 44×
• Timmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-03-04· cited 23×
• Diehl v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-12· cited 2×