Hughes 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 the evidence established that the defendant “created the situation” that resulted in his stabbing the victim, thus refuting the defendant’s self-defense claim
• noting that the jury “was entitled to disbelieve” the defendant’s account
• imputing malice to defendant who stabbed unarmed victim with a knife
• “If the legislature had intended to exclude the factual scenario presented in the instant case from the -4- complete jurisdictional divestiture provisions it could have done so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-20· cited 101×
• Armstead v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-07-27· cited 92×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 26×
• 7-Eleven, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-30· cited 16×
• Alger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Needham
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-12-08· cited 13×
• Justin Thomas Meade v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-05-17

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sandoval v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-04· cited 495×
• Yarborough v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 276×
• Juares v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 150×
• McGhee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 137×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-14· cited 126×
• Shackleford v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 109×
• Halifax Corp. v. First Union National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 90×
• Cummings v. Fulghum
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 85×
• Gardner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 81×
• Tatum v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-01-25· cited 73×
• Peyton v. French
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-04-25· cited 67×
• Jamborsky v. Baskins
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 65×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 49×
• Forst v. Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 44×
• Reynolds v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-06-29· cited 35×
• Burfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-08-06· cited 34×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-24· cited 22×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-01-17· cited 16×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 16×
• Callahan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-03-12· cited 14×