Jenkins v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to keep proper lookout and driving left of center insufficient to support conviction
• defendant driving southbound down the middle of an unmarked road with lights on low beam, saw a pedestrian in northbound lane ahead and applied brakes but hit the victim
• defendant driving southbound down middle of unmarked road with lights on low beam saw pedestrian in northbound lane ahead and applied brakes but hit victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Darnell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 237×
• Tubman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-07· cited 40×
• State v. Vollmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 24×
• State v. Carman
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2015-12-04· cited 9×
• Thomas Tyler Wright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-11· cited 8×
• State v. Richeson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-06-30· cited 2×
• State v. Linkous
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-06-15· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Botetourt County Circuit Court· 1985-02-13

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,268×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 88×
• Mayo v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 36×
• JP SMITH v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 6×