Harmon 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 \the issuance of writs of venire facias different from what the law prescribes is an intentional irregularity and not within the curative provisions of the statute\
• where defendant testified that he had previously been convicted of a killing, \he opened the door and assumed the risk that the prosecution would ask on cross-examination the degree of the homicide\
• “[T]he fact of conviction of a felony may be shown by the Commonwealth, but the name of the felony, other than perjury, and the details thereof may not be shown.”
• where defendant testified that he had previously been convicted of a killing, “he opened the door and assumed the risk that the prosecution would ask on cross-examination the degree of the homicide”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Maynard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-18· cited 80×
• Ricketts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-11-06· cited 73×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-08-24· cited 65×
• Hunter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-16· cited 57×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-07· cited 54×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-12-03· cited 35×
• Cole v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-16· cited 33×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-15· cited 32×
• State v. Gervais
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-04-09· cited 29×
• Hummel v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 27×
• Burrell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-04-11· cited 26×
• Sadoski v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-04-20· cited 21×
• Santmier v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 21×
• McAmis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 16×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-03· cited 16×
• Dammerau v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-21· cited 15×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Able v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-22· cited 13×
• Joyner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-08· cited 10×
• Payne v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-09-15· cited 8×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-04-28· cited 735×
• Fleenor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-10-13· cited 29×
• Roy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-01-15· cited 28×
• Hicks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-01-14· cited 13×
• Slater v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-05-01· cited 1×