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.

• explaining that the definition has been “repeated in numerous decisions”
• reversing robbery conviction based on snatching on ground of lack of intent permanently to deprive victim of property; whether snatching constituted violence not addressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Midgett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 150×
• Traxler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1952-12-10· cited 85×
• Durham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-08-30· cited 80×
• Mason v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-10-13· cited 77×
• United States v. Jeffery Len Melton
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-09-24· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Mangula
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1975-01-17· cited 52×
• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 37×
• Kenneth Williams v. Robert R. Kelly, Warden
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-05-12· cited 35×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 30×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 28×
• Pettus v. Peyton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-03-06· cited 25×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1960-11-07· cited 24×
• Charles H. Dove, Jr. v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1965-03-05· cited 22×
• Com. v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-09-18· cited 12×
• Victoria Elizabeth Dufresne v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-10-18· cited 9×
• State v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-01-16· cited 8×
• Austin v. Peyton
  W.D. Virginia· 1968-01-17· cited 6×
• United States v. Joseph Williams
  Fourth Circuit· 2023-03-27· cited 3×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-12-15
• Commonwealth v. Barney
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2023-03-16

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• Houston v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-12-16· cited 39×
• Brookman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-11-15· cited 10×