Henderson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• placing stolen cigarettes in a bag when robbing convenience stores did not constitute behavior uncommon enough to be admissible as evidence of a modus operandi
• reversing the conviction because the evidence of the other robberies was inadmissible to prove identity
• finding several early morning robberies of cigarettes from 7-Eleven stores not sufficiently distinctive to establish a modus operandi
• reversing the conviction because the evidence of the other robberies was inadmissible to prove identity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gonzales v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-12· cited 58×
• Spence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 46×
• Godwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 40×
• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-04· cited 34×
• Blaylock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-17· cited 33×
• Crump v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 31×
• Galbraith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 30×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-22· cited 27×
• Foster v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-11-17· cited 18×
• Reynolds v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-02-18· cited 14×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-12-24· cited 14×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-01-17· cited 12×
• Hewston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-05-24· cited 10×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-30· cited 9×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-07-18· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Babcock
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 1996-08-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 131×
• Donahue v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 87×
• Bunting v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 74×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-06-12· cited 57×
• Bourgeois v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 57×
• Day v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-03-07· cited 47×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-10-08· cited 42×
• Curtis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-02-03· cited 20×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-18· cited 13×