James v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a defendant’s silence in response to “statement tending to incriminate” him is “admissible in a criminal proceeding against him . . . as evidence of his acquiescence in its truth”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Gardner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-05-03· cited 72×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-01-17· cited 67×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Harlow v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 60×
• Strohecker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-09-24· cited 22×
• McCoy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 20×
• Lynch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-16· cited 16×
• Knight v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-10-11· cited 9×
• Mendoza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-04-28· cited 6×
• Margaret Wright Smith v. R. R. Allen, II
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-12-07· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-03-19· cited 68×
• Jackson v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-06-08· cited 53×
• Randolph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-11-21· cited 49×
• Owens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-09-03· cited 49×