Lawson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a hunter who entered the land of another “mistakenly thought he was on [an adjoining property]” upon which “he had permission to be,” thereby entering the land “under a bona fide claim of right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Smith
  New York County Courts· 2009-10-13
• People v. Smith
  New York County Courts· 2010-09-13
• Marston v. Barnes
  Northumberland County Circuit Court· 2014-04-18
• Cody Wayne Coleman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-03-31

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Weatherford v. Bursey
  Supreme Court· 1977-02-22· cited 1,807×
• Marable v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-16· cited 458×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-22· cited 198×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 119×
• Lowe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 95×
• Reed v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-03-15· cited 67×
• Moreno v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-29· cited 41×
• Gooden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 40×
• O'Banion v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-25· cited 24×
• DeAmicis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-01· cited 15×