Edmonds 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 the killing and theft were so closely related in time that they were interdependent and that capital murder conviction was justified under the facts
• during robbery, victim sustained multiple wounds including stab wound to neck; defendant had 3 felony and 13 misdemeanor convictions; death sentence imposed based on findings of vileness and future dangerousness
• during robbery, victim sustained multiple wounds including stab wound to neck; defendant had 3 felony and 13 misdemeanor convictions; death sentence imposed based on findings of vileness and future dangerousness
• dealing with qualifications to testify on future dangerousness in a capital case
• circumstantial evidence including the defendant’s efforts to conceal the victim’s body was sufficient to prove murder was willful, deliberate, and premeditated
• circumstantial evidence including the defendant's efforts to conceal the victim's body was sufficient to prove murder was willful, deliberate, and premeditated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• Edmonds v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 261×
• Ex parte Weinstein
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-01-29· cited 195×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 154×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 132×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 123×
• Poyner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-04-26· cited 106×
• Beavers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 99×
• Cardwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 93×
• Mueller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 92×
• Joseph John Savino v. Edward W. Murray, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-04-30· cited 87×
• Quesinberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 86×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Aldridge v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-28· cited 78×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 78×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 76×
• Savino v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-04-20· cited 69×
• Joseph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 68×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-06-07· cited 67×
• Hoke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-03-03· cited 61×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barefoot v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 4,617×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 143×
• Quintana v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 114×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Whitley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-01-22· cited 86×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 79×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 77×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Ball v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-01-16· cited 54×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 53×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 52×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 44×
• Rollins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-11-28· cited 37×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 37×