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.

• noting that battery can consist of “the least touching of another’s person”
• “Battery is the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another (e.g., the least touching of another’s person).”
• “Battery is the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another (e.g., the least touching of another’s person), wilfully or in anger, whether by the party’s own hand, or by some means set in motion by him.”
• “Battery is the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another (e.g., the least touching of another’s person), wilfully [sic] or in anger, whether by the party’s own hand, or by some means set in motion by him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Jolon Carthorne, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-08-13· cited 178×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 112×
• United States v. Jolon Carthorne, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-12-21· cited 111×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 100×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 100×
• Banovitch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 92×
• Brown v. Spotsylvania Department of Social Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 66×
• Montague v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-11-05· cited 60×
• Hunter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-16· cited 57×
• Bennett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-15· cited 45×
• United States v. White
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-06-01· cited 35×
• Seegars v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-05· cited 24×
• Humbert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-06-01· cited 16×
• VELASQUEZ
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2010-07-01· cited 15×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-10-10· cited 12×
• Paramont Mining Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-10-03· cited 8×
• Epps v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 8×
• Leal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-19· cited 5×
• Ronnie Antjuan Vaughn v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-01-30· cited 3×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-01-16· cited 32×
• Mickens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-10-13· cited 23×
• State v. Newsom
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1878-09-07· cited 12×