Lewis v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no reversible error where the prosecution improperly disclosed the guilty plea of an accomplice where the trial court instructed the jury to disregard the disclosure
• finding the defendant suffered no prejudice from the improper admission of testimony and a statement by the prosecutor where the court expressly disapproved of the improper remarks with a cautionary instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Beavers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 99×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-09-01· cited 55×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 53×
• Bennett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-09· cited 50×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 44×
• State v. Ellis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-12-20· cited 39×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 38×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 38×
• Asbury v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 36×
• Riner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-06· cited 32×
• Stover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 31×
• Black v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 28×
• Mills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-25· cited 27×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-08-14· cited 18×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 13×
• Fowlkes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-08· cited 6×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-04-23· cited 6×
• Strawderman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Asbury v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 36×
• Coffey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 32×
• McLean v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-06-09· cited 17×