Ellis 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 the trial judge did not participate in an improper ex parte communication when he interviewed a juror in chambers without notifying the defendant
• holding that the trial judge did not participate in an improper ex parte communication when he interviewed a juror in chambers without notifying the defendant
• holding that the bar on ex parte communications does not apply to administrative issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Royal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-03-18· cited 12×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-12-06· cited 10×
• Whitaker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-10-16· cited 7×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Rushen v. Spain
  Supreme Court· 1983-12-12· cited 1,013×
• United States v. Ian Woodner
  Second Circuit· 1963-05-28· cited 58×
• Bilokur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 35×