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.

• “It is not their duty to incite to and create crime for the sole purpose of prosecuting and punishing it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schneider v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 148×
• Ansell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 110×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. American Booksellers Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 51×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-05-11· cited 41×
• Lovisi v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-04-24· cited 32×
• Schwartz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-17· cited 29×
• McCoy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-31· cited 29×
• Neighbors v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 15×
• Aaron Markeith Gerald v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-10-17· cited 13×
• Hines v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-25· cited 10×
• George Wood v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-11-27· cited 10×
• Mosby v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-08-13· cited 9×
• Jones v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-21
• Jordan Darrell Morris v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-08-02
• Jordan Darrell Morris v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-09-06
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Winchester County Circuit Court· 1987-02-05
• Jordan Darrell Morris v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-05-09
• Dana Mark Camann, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-01-16

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sorrells v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-19· cited 1,793×
• Sherman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 1,587×
• Ritter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 142×
• Falden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 27×
• Price v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-12-06· cited 26×
• Guthrie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-09-09· cited 18×
• Swift v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-10-14· cited 13×
• Ossen v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-06-14· cited 13×
• Dorchincoz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-06-19· cited 10×
• Chester Banks v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1957-12-02· cited 9×
• Bauer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 7×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-01-08· cited 3×