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 victim’s testimony, if credible and accepted by the finder of fact, is sufficient evidence, standing alone, to support [a] conviction”
• holding that “the victim’s testimony, if credible and accepted by the finder of fact, is sufficient evidence, standing alone, to support [a] conviction”
• holding that “the victim’s testimony, if credible and accepted by the finder of fact, is sufficient evidence, standing alone, to support [a] conviction”
• holding that because the perpetrator and the victim are usually the only witnesses to sexual offenses, “[a] requirement of corroboration would cause most sex offenses to go unpunished”
• holding that “[t]he evidence was neither incredible nor so contrary to human experience as to render it unworthy of belief” where, even though the child victim’s “credibility was subjected to substantial attack,” the trial court believed her
• noting that “the victim’s testimony, if credible and accepted by the finder of fact, is sufficient evidence, standing alone, to support the conviction” in a rape or sexual abuse case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-05-19· cited 153×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 153×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-24· cited 120×
• Ashby v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-10· cited 109×
• Moyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-25· cited 90×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-28· cited 77×
• Love v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-22· cited 65×
• Ragsdale v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-07-02· cited 61×
• McCary v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-03· cited 61×
• State v. Murray
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-11-10· cited 41×
• Woodard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-13· cited 40×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 39×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-11· cited 34×
• United States v. Samuels
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-07-09· cited 31×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-06· cited 21×
• Kehinde v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-01-07· cited 13×
• Clifford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-08-08· cited 12×
• Sanchez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-26· cited 11×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 10×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-10· cited 8×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Beck
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 140×
• Cartera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 109×
• Willis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 52×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-02-29· cited 41×
• Poindexter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 30×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-03-05· cited 7×
• Scoggin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-03-24· cited 1×