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.

• “In the commission of robbery the property must be taken by force and violence, not necessarily from the owner, but from any person in possession thereof whose right of possession is superior to that of the robber.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 60×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 50×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 42×
• Sullivan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-03· cited 26×
• Crawford v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 16×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-08-05· cited 10×
• Waters v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-02· cited 5×
• State v. Sosebee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-05-16· cited 4×
• Olmedo Alberto Pena Pinedo v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-05-05
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-12-15

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• Falden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 82×
• Durham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-08-30· cited 80×