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.

• ‘Voluntary drunkenness (as distinguished from settled insanity produced by drink) affords no excuse for crime.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 187×
• Bishop v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1939-10-23· cited 103×
• People v. Langworthy
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 95×
• Joseph John Savino v. Edward W. Murray, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-04-30· cited 87×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-07-11· cited 83×
• Hatcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-03-03· cited 80×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-02-11· cited 69×
• Swisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-11-06· cited 48×
• Chittum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 38×
• Maxwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 33×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 31×
• Griggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 29×
• Herbin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 28×
• Hanks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-27· cited 27×
• State v. Brennauer
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2023-07-28· cited 27×
• McLaughlin v. Royster
  E.D. Virginia· 1972-07-25· cited 24×
• Arey v. Peyton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-12-06· cited 22×
• Andrew Gilbert Schmuhl v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 22×
• State v. Plummer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1977-04-29· cited 20×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Morris
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1917-02-27· cited 49×
• Lee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 33×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-11-13· cited 28×
• Swanson v. Keokuk & Western Railroad
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1902-04-11· cited 11×
• Carr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 4×