Howard v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming an attempt conviction where “an extraneous circumstance independent of the will of defendants ... prevented them from carrying out their intent to commit murder”
• affirming an attempt conviction where “an extraneous circumstance independent of the will of defendants . . . prevented them from carrying out their intent to commit murder”
• quoting, 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, § 110 (1965)
• applying inference to a charge of attempted murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People of Illinois v. Myers
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-06-04· cited 149×
• NOBLES, IV v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 126×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-10-14· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 112×
• Hancock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 98×
• Hargrave v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 77×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-09-05· cited 76×
• Sizemore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 56×
• Chittum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 38×
• Rogers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-10-06· cited 23×
• Crawford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-12-29· cited 22×
• Ashford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-02-28· cited 15×
• Secret v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-10-11· cited 14×
• People v. Davis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-03-23· cited 9×
• Joyce v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-10-13· cited 7×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-05· cited 6×
• City of Richmond v. Old Dominion Iron & Steel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-01-17· cited 5×
• Austin Wayne Keyser v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-07-30· cited 3×
• Demetrie Lamont Watkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-08-06· cited 2×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-01-13

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dawkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-03-03· cited 132×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 109×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Banovitch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 92×
• Hicks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-06-20· cited 67×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 65×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Glover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-11-21· cited 62×
• Ingram v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-10-08· cited 55×
• Granberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 45×
• Tasker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 27×
• Westry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 17×
• Mullins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-11-20· cited 11×
• Slusher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-10-11· cited 10×