Esteban v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]here is no constitutional requirement that an offense contain a mens rea or scienter element.”
• “[T]here is no constitutional requirement that an offense contain a mens rea or scienter element.”
• requiring consideration of legislative intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Flanagan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-30· cited 217×
• Auer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-10-25· cited 79×
• Young v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-04-20· cited 34×
• Terra Nyree Hines v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-02-14· cited 25×
• Bullock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-07-05· cited 25×
• Giles v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-02-27· cited 21×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-23· cited 18×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-06-29· cited 16×
• Ghameshlouy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-05-05· cited 16×
• Leo Ricardo Barnes v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-05· cited 11×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-02-23· cited 11×
• Cygnus Newport-Phase 1B, LLC v. City of Portsmouth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2016-09-22· cited 9×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-02-07· cited 7×
• Gray v. Bourne
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-21· cited 6×
• Giles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 5×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-12-26· cited 4×
• Derrick Renard Powell v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-11-26· cited 3×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-11-01
• United States v. Barber
  E.D. Virginia· 2005-02-09
• Dominque Jamar Jones, s/k/a Dominique Jamar Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-12-26

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Staples v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,491×
• United States v. Balint
  Supreme Court· 1922-03-27· cited 605×
• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 112×
• Wicks v. City of Charlottesville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 69×
• Mitchem v. Counts
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 57×
• Maye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-06-12· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Leal
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-01-10· cited 37×
• Stanley v. Tomlin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 29×
• Weishaupt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-04-27· cited 28×
• Makarov v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 26×
• Parrish v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1884-11-28· cited 22×