Jackson 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 to impose the death penalty, a jury was required to find unanimously the aggravating factor of vileness, but was not required to find unanimously the conduct comprising vileness
• expert’s testimony on transference as phenomenon making subject more prone to suggestion found admissible; however, no error to exclude expert’s testimony on truth or falsity of defendant’s statements
• “[The] limitation of cross-examination is within the trial court’s discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Muhammad v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-04-22· cited 379×
• Juniper v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-03-03· cited 345×
• Avent v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 190×
• Angel v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-01-13· cited 107×
• State v. Fernando-Granados
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2004-07-02· cited 93×
• Molina v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-10· cited 79×
• State v. Oliver
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-12-16· cited 42×
• People v. Watson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-01-25· cited 41×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 36×
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University v. Quesenberry
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-04-17· cited 32×
• Medley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-09-21· cited 32×
• James Bethea, s/k/a James Willie Bethea v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-02-20· cited 29×
• Sheng Jie Jin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-02-14· cited 16×
• Harry Lee Davison, III v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-10-23· cited 14×
• Jackson v. Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-04-23· cited 11×
• Hopkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-02-17· cited 6×
• Lightfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 6×
• Bethea v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2019-08-28· cited 4×
• Argenbright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-09-07· cited 3×
• Prieto v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-01-13

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Richardson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-01· cited 913×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Satcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 188×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• Coppola v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 162×
• Buchanan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 139×
• Breeden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 125×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 123×
• Buck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 118×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Clozza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 98×
• Burns v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-03-02· cited 96×
• Strickler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 95×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-03-01· cited 86×