Gardner v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the funds were the property of the bank “until the instant the defendant obtained ownership through her use of the forged withdrawal slip”
• vacating a defendant’s conviction when the evidence proved theft by false pretenses from a victim other than the one named in the indictment
• vacating the defendant’s conviction and dismissing the indictment because a fatal variance existed between the indictment and the evidence
• indictment charged theft of money by false pretenses from one victim, while the evidence proved theft by false pretenses from another victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bass
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2016-06-02· cited 178×
• Purvy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-13· cited 30×
• Stokes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-13· cited 24×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-11-14· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Nuckles
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-10-31· cited 7×
• Carmichael v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 2004-11-29· cited 2×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2002-09-06· cited 1×
• Studco Building Systems US, LLC v. 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-03-26· cited 1×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-03-19· cited 68×
• United States v. James R. Pavloski
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-05-05· cited 58×
• Bernardini v. Central National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-04-30· cited 54×
• Bateman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-11-30· cited 51×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 50×
• Quidley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-03-06· cited 34×
• United States v. Ronald Mitchell
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-07-07· cited 26×
• Central National Bank v. First & Merchants National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-10-07· cited 26×
• Etheridge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 23×
• Bennet v. First & Merchants National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 15×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-04-27· cited 13×
• Latham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-03-04· cited 12×
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond v. State & City Bank & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-06-14· cited 10×
• Latasha Gardner, s/k/a Latasha Alon Gardner v. CW
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-06-20· cited 4×
• James Christion Catterton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-12· cited 3×