Griffin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that the court would look at the attendant circumstances by its rejection of a \per se rule that the `status offense' of possession of a firearm may never serve as the underlying felony for felony murder\
• “The phrase ‘in the prosecution’ requires proof that the killing resulted from an act which was an integral part of the felony or an act in direct furtherance of or necessitated by the felony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-24· cited 22×
• State v. Harding
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-04-25· cited 19×
• Staton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-31· cited 18×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-06-29· cited 16×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 7×
• Carlos Abraham Martinelly Montano, s/k/a, etc. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 6×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-08-04· cited 6×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-12-24· cited 6×
• United States v. Crudup
  E.D. Virginia· 2002-10-10· cited 3×
• Flanders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-02-13

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Collins v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,864×
• California Department of Corrections v. Morales
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-25· cited 1,142×
• Beazell v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-23· cited 945×
• De Veau v. Braisted
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-06· cited 494×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• People v. Satchell
  California Supreme Court· 1971-11-04· cited 171×
• Canipe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-14· cited 141×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• State v. Underwood
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1980-07-18· cited 68×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-12-03· cited 65×
• Metts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 63×
• Haskell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 62×
• Wooden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 59×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 59×
• Heacock v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 56×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-05-17· cited 49×
• Doane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 22×
• Spain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-11-15· cited 21×
• Dodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-08· cited 17×