Kearney 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 a defendant cannot inject “residual doubt” about his guilt at the sentencing phase of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Weeks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-10· cited 2×
• Reed v. Nat’l Council of the Boy Scouts
  D. New Hampshire· 2010-02-03
• Dean Anton Vitasek v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-01-13

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• O'NEAL v. McAninch
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-21· cited 1,687×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 347×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. Shifflett
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 110×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Lowery v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-09· cited 75×
• Herbage v. Carlson
  Supreme Court· 1991-10-07· cited 56×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-11-10· cited 49×
• Atkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-09-15· cited 28×
• Wyche v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-03-03· cited 26×
• Craig v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-14· cited 15×
• Kearney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-18· cited 6×