Gibson 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 “[ujpon aplea of insanity in a criminal case, the issue is whether the accused was insane at the time the offense was committed’
• stating that jury instructions “must be supported by more than a mere scintilla of evidence”
• stating that jury instructions “must be supported by more than a mere scintilla of evidence”
• evidence that man charged with murdering his wife had previously shot at wife and children was properly admitted to show conduct and feelings towards his wife

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Hatcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-03-03· cited 80×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 68×
• Ryan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 65×
• Freeman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 50×
• Phelan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-06-26· cited 48×
• LaDawn Shrieves King v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-04-07· cited 46×
• Theodore Roosevelt Gibson, Jr. v. Robert F. Zahradnick, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1978-07-19· cited 41×
• Turman v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 40×
• Schlimmer v. Poverty Hunt Club
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-06-10· cited 38×
• Morgan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-07-10· cited 33×
• Lombard v. Rohrbaugh
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 29×
• Herbin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 28×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 27×
• Andrew Gilbert Schmuhl v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 22×
• Pierce v. Caday
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 19×
• Vann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-04-17· cited 15×
• Michael Marnell Smith v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director of the Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-05-10· cited 13×
• Edward James Conquest v. James P. Mitchell, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-04-08· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• People v. Ditson
  California Supreme Court· 1962-03-15· cited 179×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-04-21· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Byrd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-05-02· cited 32×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 13×