Jones v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• distinguishing Winn and finding that defendant’s “jerking” victim around during purse snatching, resulting in a physical confrontation, was violence “directed at the person of the victim” to sustain robbery conviction
• the evidence was sufficient to prove a robbery rather than a larceny from the person where the victim was jerked around by her shoulder and the defendant grabbed the purse she was clutching

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Robert Winston
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-03-13· cited 120×
• United States v. Donnie Walton
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-02-01· cited 22×
• Chappelle v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-08· cited 13×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-10· cited 12×
• United States v. Terry White
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-02-05· cited 12×
• Pitt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-05· cited 8×
• State v. Hatley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-03-17· cited 7×
• United States v. Terry White
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-01-27· cited 7×
• Waters v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-02· cited 5×
• Austin v. United States
  S.D. New York· 2017-12-04· cited 5×
• United States v. Jarohn Parham
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-02-26· cited 5×
• Mills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-01· cited 3×
• United States v. Goffigan
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-11-03
• United States v. Mao
  First Circuit· 2026-04-29

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bivins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-28· cited 41×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-12-16· cited 33×
• Winn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-10-24· cited 19×