Jordan 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 intoxication, even when it may have \produced temporary insanity during the existence of which the criminal act was committed ... would afford no excuse\
• defendant’s entering victim’s room and telling her “what he wanted and what he was going to have” alone would have been sufficient to sustain attempted rape conviction
• “A man is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Thompson v. Charles L. Dye, Warden, Allegheny County Jail
  Third Circuit· 1955-05-23· cited 122×
• Paul J. Heideman v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1958-11-17· cited 90×
• Riley v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-04-17· cited 45×
• Chittum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 38×
• State v. Franklin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-12-01· cited 32×
• Laurence Maria Smith, s/k/a Laurence Marie Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-16· cited 16×
• Downing v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-24· cited 13×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-10· cited 8×
• Brenan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-04-23· cited 6×
• State v. Franklin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-01-12· cited 2×
• South v. Slayton
  W.D. Virginia· 1972-01-24· cited 1×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 49×
• Little v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-09-20· cited 17×