Goins 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 a victim’s statement identifying assailant, made ten to fifteen minutes after police had interviewed the victim, when police led the victim to the police vehicle for the purpose of observing assailant, did not qualify as an excited utterance
• robbery victim’s statements made in response to questioning 10 to 15 minutes after police arrived held inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Lenz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 98×
• Perry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-09· cited 97×
• Simpson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 70×
• Pugh v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 59×
• Brooks v. City of Newport News
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-10-15· cited 49×
• Caison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-29· cited 43×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 39×
• State v. Young
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 33×
• Galbraith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 30×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 28×
• Scaggs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 28×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 21×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-18· cited 19×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-02· cited 15×
• Estes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-15· cited 12×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 10×
• Yager v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-11-21· cited 10×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-12-02· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Nicholaou v. Harrington
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 16×
• Van Dyke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-04-25· cited 16×
• Vass v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 10×