Kennedy v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding reckless driving conviction where driver admitted he had been sleepy fifteen minutes before unexplained accident and evidence established that family had been on the road for eight hours and that vehicle left no skid marks or other evidence of braking prior to running off the road
• upholding reckless driving conviction where driver admitted he had been sleepy fifteen minutes before unexplained accident and evidence established that family had been on the road for eight hours and that vehicle left no skid marks or other evidence of braking prior to running off the road
• evidence that defendant fell asleep at the wheel and ran off the road was sufficient to sustain his conviction of reckless driving
• choice to operate vehicle with knowledge of steering defect is reckless driving

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Conrad v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-11-30· cited 45×
• Clancy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-15· cited 18×
• Hargrove v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-07-31· cited 16×
• Jetton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 9×
• Linda Eugene Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-05· cited 4×
• Hale v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-12-10· cited 3×
• Dennis Jeremiah Lawrence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-08-15· cited 3×
• Conrad v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-11· cited 3×
• Henry Adolphus Thompson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-07· cited 2×
• Mark Spencer Cady v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-08-11
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2014-12-10

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Zirkle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-09-07· cited 85×
• Powers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 71×
• Meeks v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 26×
• Gale v. Wilber
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-09-20· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-11· cited 14×
• Bacon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-02-29· cited 10×
• Voight v. Reber
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-01-12· cited 10×