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.

• “Whenever the legitimate probative value outweighs the incidental prejudice to the accused, evidence of prior offenses, if otherwise competent, is admissible.”
• guilty knowledge of receiving stolen goods can be proven by circumstantial evidence
• guilty knowledge of receiving stolen goods can be proven by circumstantial evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 320×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Pugliese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-09· cited 207×
• Bazemore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 150×
• Corvin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 128×
• Woodfin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 108×
• Guill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 107×
• Alexy J. Abdo, a/k/a Alexi J. Abdo v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-03-24· cited 91×
• Hope v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-22· cited 70×
• Wilkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 67×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Rose v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 63×
• Gonzales v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-12· cited 58×
• Morse v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 57×
• Snow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-21· cited 54×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 54×
• Bynum v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-12· cited 52×
• Ferrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-11· cited 51×
• Spence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 46×
• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 42×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Bunting v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 74×
• Reaves v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-06-18· cited 32×
• Hey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1879-12-04· cited 16×