Falden v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• defining entrapment as “the conception and planning of an offense by an officer [or the officer’s agent], and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 101×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 100×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-12-16· cited 33×
• McCoy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-31· cited 29×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 29×
• Pettus v. Peyton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-03-06· cited 25×
• Swift v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-10-14· cited 13×
• Ossen v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-06-14· cited 13×
• Daniel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-23· cited 8×
• Sherman v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1944-03-16· cited 6×
• S
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1962-07-01· cited 6×
• Pressley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-07-28· cited 6×
• Pressley v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-07-28· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sorrells v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-19· cited 1,793×
• Falden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 82×
• Bauer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 7×