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 a sentencing judge, unlike a juror, has the ability to disregard a statement in the presentence report that was not admissible at the sentencing hearing
• \The burden is on the party who alleges reversible error to show by the record that reversal is the remedy to which he is entitled.\
• on appeal, the trial court's judgment is presumed correct and the burden is on the party alleging reversible error to show by the record that he is entitled to reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Archer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-10· cited 692×
• Lutes v. Alexander
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-08-25· cited 158×
• Thomas Pope, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-31· cited 52×
• Bullock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-07-05· cited 25×
• Dunn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-18· cited 25×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-29· cited 20×
• McGill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-20· cited 19×
• Billips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-06-06· cited 12×
• Vanhook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 10×
• Lightfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 6×
• Vanegas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-07· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffin
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 1997-02-26

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 1,743×
• Fare v. Michael C.
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 1,729×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-03-02· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Forde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-11· cited 93×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 78×
• Rodgers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 49×
• Green v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 45×
• Brawand v. Brawand
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-01-07· cited 39×
• Ballard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 20×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 8×
• Crum v. Udy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-03-07· cited 8×
• State v. C.J.M.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-07-21· cited 7×