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.

• affirming conviction over defendant’s argument that prosecutor impermissibly commented on his right to silence by posing rhetorical question to jury asking whether “they had heard from the witness stand any evidence” that defendant had denied his guilt
• “[A] prosecutor’s comment that the Commonwealth’s evidence was uncontradicted was not necessarily a reference to the defendant’s failure to testify but an argument that the testimony of the witnesses who had testified was credible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lemon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-05-18· cited 22×
• Pollino v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 21×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-20· cited 21×
• Waldrop v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-12-17· cited 9×
• Hazel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-01· cited 6×
• Patrick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-11-27· cited 3×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 647×
• Tad R. Knowles v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1955-06-22· cited 248×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Quintana v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 114×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 59×
• Hines v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 29×
• Lincoln v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 29×
• Elliott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-02-20· cited 18×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-09-19· cited 14×