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.

• stating that \evidence of flight to avoid arrest is admissible as tending to show consciousness of guilt on the part of the accused\
• evidence that accused was with perpetrator prior to robbery and burglary, was present during commission of offenses, and fled in order to escape arrest was insufficient to convict him as aider and abettor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Muhammad v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-04-22· cited 379×
• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• John L. Bailey v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-03-07· cited 136×
• Black v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 120×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 102×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-28· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Benders
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-05-01· cited 92×
• Thomas v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 87×
• People v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-11-09· cited 84×
• State v. Payne
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-06-30· cited 71×
• Bouwkamp v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-06-02· cited 67×
• Settles v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-03-11· cited 66×
• Stephens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 55×
• Cartwright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 55×
• McMorris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-09-12· cited 54×
• Hyde v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 50×
• Augustine v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 44×
• Epps v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-06-13· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Gallarelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-05-11· cited 42×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 109×
• Foster v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-01-19· cited 88×
• Miles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-09-11· cited 87×
• Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-01-16· cited 82×
• Triplett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-03-19· cited 81×
• Hundley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-03-10· cited 51×
• Bateman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-11-30· cited 51×
• Bowie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-10-08· cited 40×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 23×
• Smyth v. Morrison
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-03-16· cited 21×
• Henson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 20×
• United States v. George Thomas Paige, Durwood Ray Burgess, and James Arthur Starke
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-10-17· cited 13×
• Dykeman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-04-25· cited 12×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-10-08· cited 10×
• Sturgis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-09-14· cited 7×
• Stone v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-11-25· cited 7×
• Bullock v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-03-08· cited 3×