Harris 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 once the presumption of regularity attaches to a criminal conviction, the defendant has the burden of producing evidence to rebut that presumption
• stating that the right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment applies only to prosecutions for which the defendant faces actual incarceration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Seaton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-04-13· cited 116×
• State v. McCann
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2001-04-17· cited 42×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-09· cited 26×
• Samuels v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-14· cited 18×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-06· cited 16×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-20· cited 13×
• Billips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-06-06· cited 12×
• State v. Probst
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2004-02-25· cited 4×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-10-26· cited 4×
• State v. McCann
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2000-07-18· cited 1×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-30· cited 1×
• Washington v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-09
• Washington v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-10-26
• Commonwealth v. Foulks
  Suffolk County Circuit Court· 2001-09-24
• Christopher Coleman v. Chadwick Dotson
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-11-21

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• In Re GAULT
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-15· cited 5,473×
• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• Burgett v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,632×
• Parke v. Raley
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-19· cited 1,268×
• Scott v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 1,061×
• Nichols v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 832×
• Williams v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1959-03-30· cited 452×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 73×
• Nicely v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-09-16· cited 64×
• Duncan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 48×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-12· cited 25×
• Griswold v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-06-07· cited 24×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-28· cited 4×