Harbaugh v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “parents or persons standing in loco parentis may administer such reasonable and timely punishment as may be necessary to correct faults in a growing child”
• stating that the fact finder’s role is to “determine from the attending circumstances,” including “the kind of marks or wounds inflicted on the body of the child,” “whether punishment [inflicted] had been moderate or excessive”
• beating of five-year-old child caused badly bruised buttocks with blood seepage and purple marks and welts on both legs such that the outer layer of skin stuck to the child’s underpants
• affirming the defendant’s conviction for assault and battery of a five-year-old boy, whom he admitted hitting “fairly hard” on the buttocks “ten or twelve times with his open hand” because the boy “missed the school bus”
• parental privilege to discipline “cannot be used as a cloak for the exercise of uncontrolled passion”
• parental privilege to discipline “cannot be used as a cloak for the exercise of uncontrolled passion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Campbell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 275×
• Ferguson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 38×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-06-27· cited 34×
• Buck v. City of Danville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-11-27· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dorvil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-25· cited 22×
• Santen v. Tuthill
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-04-17· cited 21×
• State v. Singleton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-09-09· cited 14×
• Preston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-16· cited 14×
• Lovan C. v. Department of Children & Families
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-12-07· cited 14×
• Cregger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-06-24· cited 12×
• Ferguson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-09-11· cited 7×
• State v. Graves
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1997-09-10· cited 5×
• Smith v. Slayton
  W.D. Virginia· 1973-12-11· cited 5×
• Griffin v. Wilkerson
  W.D. Virginia· 1972-01-07· cited 2×
• Hill v. Middlesex County
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-12· cited 2×
• Pleasants v. Town of Louisa
  W.D. Virginia· 2012-03-12· cited 2×
• James Eberhardt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-12-14
• Tina Dione Woodson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-05-03

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harrison v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 805×
• Jim B. Edmonds v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1959-12-10· cited 96×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-10-13· cited 44×
• Baylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 30×
• Kirby v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1883-09-13· cited 25×
• Gravely v. Deeds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-11-25· cited 25×
• United States v. Grunewald
  S.D. New York· 1958-06-09· cited 23×