Fisher 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 court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to permit counsel to withdraw and testify to impeach a police officer where defense counsel had failed to lay the proper foundation for such testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Newport v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1999-07-06· cited 19×
• Via v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 16×
• Helmick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-06· cited 13×
• Steven Christopher Sevachko v. Commonwealth of VA
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-04-24· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Norton
  Isle of Wight County Circuit Court· 2001-03-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Oregon v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 2,097×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-11-01· cited 63×
• Stephens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 57×
• Terrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-09· cited 47×
• Adkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 26×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-02-06· cited 24×
• Bunton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-19· cited 22×
• Shavin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-09· cited 22×
• Riddick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-19· cited 20×
• Shuttleworth, Ruloff & Giordano, P.C. v. Nutter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-10-31· cited 18×
• MacKenzie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-16· cited 18×
• Kemph v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 15×
• Brandon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 13×
• Morgan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-14· cited 12×