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.

• evidence ordinarily is admissible if it “is both material -- tending to prove a matter that is properly at issue in the case -- and relevant -- tending to establish the proposition for which it is offered”
• \Circumstantial evidence . . . is sufficient to sustain a conviction.\
• \Circumstantial evidence alone is sufficient to sustain a conviction.\
• circumstantial evidence alone sufficient to sustain conviction
• circumstantial evidence alone sufficient to sustain conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 166×
• Crawley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 131×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-21· cited 99×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 67×
• Tucker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-29· cited 59×
• Spivey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-14· cited 34×
• Price v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 34×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 32×
• Jeffrey D. Wells v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-01-26· cited 32×
• McBride v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-22· cited 27×
• Shurbaji v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-05-24· cited 27×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-22· cited 27×
• West v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 25×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-24· cited 22×
• Strohecker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-09-24· cited 22×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-07· cited 20×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-12-19· cited 15×
• Toro v. City of Norfolk
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-31· cited 14×
• Jarrod Antonio Spence v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-10· cited 13×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-01-14· cited 155×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 86×
• Compton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 51×
• Patler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 22×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 16×
• Pflaster v. Town of Berryville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-11-12· cited 13×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 10×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 10×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-09-09· cited 3×
• United States v. Rodell Murvin, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1970-05-19· cited 2×
• Green v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-03-06· cited 1×