Hall 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 under the common law, prior inconsistent statements are admissible only for impeachment, not for truth
• addressing both common-law and statutory principles relating to adverse testimony
• “It is fundamental to the right of cross-examination that a witness who is not a party to the case on trial may be impeached by prior statements made by the witness which are inconsistent with his present testimony . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Satcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 188×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-05-12· cited 36×
• Jones v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-03-01· cited 35×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-11· cited 34×
• State v. Collins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 34×
• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-07· cited 30×
• Commercial Distributors, Inc. v. Blankenship
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-11-09· cited 23×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-11-04· cited 19×
• Dunn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-09-09· cited 18×
• Waller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 17×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-22· cited 15×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-15· cited 14×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-11-03· cited 13×
• Royal v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 8×
• Virginia Financial Associates, Inc. v. ITT Hartford Group, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 7×
• Kelvin Lynn Whitehead v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-01-11· cited 7×
• Groggins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-28· cited 4×
• Crouse v. Medical Facilities of America XLVIII
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 2013-01-22· cited 2×
• Dupree v. Commonwealth (ORDER)
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-10-27
• Spruill v. Garcia (ORDER)
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2019-11-07

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• United States v. Francis J. De Sisto
  Second Circuit· 1964-06-15· cited 153×
• Manetta v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 46×
• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 42×
• Stoots v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-10-08· cited 13×