Hammer 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 trial judge “was entitled to give such weight as he deemed proper” to a rape victim’s delay in reporting her rape
• prosecutrix’s delay in reporting attempted rape did not make her testimony incredible as a matter of law
• prosecutrix's delay in reporting attempted rape did not make her testimony incredible as a matter of law
• prosecutrix’s delay in reporting attempted rape did not make her testimony incredible as a matter of law

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Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Corvin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 128×
• Poindexter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 30×
• Hopkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-18· cited 19×
• Burrows v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-10-15· cited 15×
• Mathews v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-03-06· cited 13×
• Barnett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 6×
• Hopkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-06· cited 4×
• Hammer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hammer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 21×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-03-05· cited 7×
• Gillispie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-12-07· cited 5×