Henson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “Subornation of perjury, if it exists, tends to draw out the well-springs of justice . . . .”
• trial court did not err in allowing testimony that a defense witness had attempted to persuade another witness to drop a complaint she made against the defendant in an unrelated case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Corvin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 128×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-12-04· cited 116×
• Nolte v. MT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISES, LLC
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-06-07· cited 36×
• Sawyer v. Comerci
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-06-07· cited 36×
• Henning v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-03-04· cited 35×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-01· cited 27×
• Banks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-31· cited 24×
• Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Sonney
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 15×
• Henson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 15×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-11-24· cited 3×
• Filippelli v. Saint Mary's Hospital
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2015-10-13