Lear v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that children under the age of fourteen cannot consent, and a court may convict upon only the victim's testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tingley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-09-14· cited 35×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 23×
• Waitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 18×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-25· cited 13×
• Marion Ray Carver v. Mr. Joe R. Martin and the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Daniel R. McLeod
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-11-24· cited 4×
• Marshall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-11-04· cited 4×
• Lewis v. Long (In re Long)
  W.D. Virginia· 2015-04-22· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Glover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-11-21· cited 62×
• Bailey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1886-06-17· cited 54×
• Noblett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-09-10· cited 35×
• Fenner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-06-13· cited 23×
• Stump v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-09-20· cited 17×
• Addington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-09-21· cited 13×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 10×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-03-21· cited 9×