Hodges 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 when a sentence of death was void, the Court could not speculate that the jury would have fixed punishment at life in prison, the maximum possible term of imprisonment, rather than a term of years
• holding that when a sentence of death was void, the Court could not speculate that the jury would have fixed punishment at life in prison, the maximum possible term of imprisonment, rather than a term of years

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Cited by

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

• People v. McKinnon
  California Supreme Court· 2011-08-22· cited 543×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-02-02· cited 123×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-08· cited 109×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Bell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-01-02· cited 66×
• Pierson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-29· cited 52×
• Huggins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-10-09· cited 35×
• Deagle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-10-08· cited 33×
• Rawls v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-09-18· cited 28×
• Swain v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-03-08· cited 24×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 20×
• Fogg v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-08-28· cited 14×
• LeMelle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-04-29· cited 12×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 11×
• Larry Joe Dargan, Jr. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-09· cited 6×
• Lankford v. Foster
  W.D. Virginia· 1982-08-12· cited 6×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-03· cited 4×
• Wood v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-11-27· cited 2×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• People v. Anderson
  California Supreme Court· 1972-02-18· cited 382×
• Painter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 54×
• Huggins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-10-09· cited 35×
• Bailey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-06-16· cited 21×
• Snider v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-06-14· cited 18×
• Wade v. Peebles
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-06-14· cited 8×

Other cases named Hodges v. Commonwealth

8 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1971-12-03· cited 23×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-07· cited 20×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1892-07-06· cited 15×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-18· cited 5×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1981-02-06· cited 5×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1923-04-17· cited 4×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1954-06-18· cited 2×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-08-10· cited 1×