Johnson 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 where two alternative grounds may have supported the trial court’s ruling and the defendant challenged only one on appeal, his failure to challenge the other ground constituted a waiver of his right to consideration of the appeal
• holding that in situations in which there is one or more alternative holdings on an issue, the appellant’s failure to address one of the holdings results in a waiver of any claim of error with respect to the court’s decision on that issue
• holding that in situations in which there is one or more alternative holdings on an issue, the appellant’s failure to address one of the holdings results in a waiver of any claim of error with respect to the court’s decision on that issue
• noting that we must determine whether a trial court’s ruling is indeed an alternative holding, i.e., “one that (when properly applied to the facts of a given case) would legally constitute a freestanding basis in support of the trial court’s decision”
• declining to review an assignment of error where a favorable ruling on it would not entitle the appellant to relief
• noting that “the majority of jurisdictions hold[ ] that in situations in which there is one or more alternative holdings on an issue, the appellant’s failure to address one of the holdings results in a waiver of any claim of error with respect to the court’s decision on that issue”

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Cited by

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

• Cooper v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-08-11· cited 174×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-12-13· cited 166×
• George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-03-14· cited 115×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-23· cited 13×
• Epps v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-07-26· cited 13×
• Alan Neff v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-05-20· cited 12×
• Hylton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-04-10· cited 10×
• Rudolph David Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-09-13· cited 9×
• 600 North Frederick Road, LLC v. Burlington Coat Factory
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-22· cited 7×
• Bailiff v. Woolman
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-01· cited 6×
• Roderick Earl Jackson v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-12-17· cited 3×
• J.D.W. v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 2×
• Hung v. Genting Berhad
  Court of Appeals of Nevada· 2022-06-30· cited 2×
• Lawlor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2013-01-10
• Manchester Oaks Homeowners Ass'n v. Batt
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-09-14
• Ferguson v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2014-04-17
• Cindy Hatfield v. Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-08-06
• AlBritton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2021-02-04
• HUNG v. BERHAD
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-06-30
• Dilliraj Bista v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-12-06

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Air Courier Conference of America v. American Postal Workers Union
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-26· cited 368×
• Britton v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-12-27· cited 303×
• Kauthar SDN BHD v. Sternberg
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-14· cited 113×
• United States v. Brannon L. Hatchett
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-03-26· cited 101×
• Craddock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-13· cited 64×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 61×
• San Antonio Press, Inc. v. Custom Bilt MacHinery
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1993-04-07· cited 59×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-10· cited 57×
• Morriss v. Enron Oil & Gas Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-14· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-03-05· cited 34×
• South Carolina Tax Commission v. Gaston Copper Recycling Corp.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-07-18· cited 24×
• Navajo Nation v. MacDonald
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1994-06-23· cited 11×
• Career Builders, Inc. v. Southern Industrial Builders, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-03-16· cited 4×