Hart 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, under Virginia's indecency statute, the defendant's statements to the victim \aided in establishing his intent in acting as he did\
• finding obscene the defendant's statement to a saleswoman \What do you think of the whole picture?\ and his comment that \he liked his velcro shorts because they `gave easy access to women who wanted him'\
• affirming conviction as obscene where defendant, “[c]lad in a skimpy G-string which covered only his penis and anus, leaving his pubic area and buttocks exposed,” told Faulk “he liked his velcro shorts because they ‘gave easy access to women who wanted him’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-25· cited 90×
• M.G. v. Albemarle County Department of Social Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-22· cited 60×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 14×
• Allman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-05-25· cited 13×
• Gray v. Graves Mountain Lodge, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 13×
• Nicholas David Pelloni v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-02-02· cited 13×
• Morales v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 12×
• Hitt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-07-13· cited 5×
• Moses v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-08-10· cited 5×
• Justin Sarafin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-10-08· cited 4×
• Moyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-10-26· cited 4×
• Paul Anthony Chenevert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-21
• Paula Jo Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-12-01
• Flayhart v. Interocean Ugland Management Corp.
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 1998-06-10
• James David Hazelwood v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-06-09

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roth v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 3,255×
• Miller v. California
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 3,038×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 810×
• Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 761×
• Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 624×
• Price v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 39×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 38×
• Duvallon v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-10-03· cited 27×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 1970-01-14· cited 13×
• State v. Crenshaw
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1979-05-18· cited 8×