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.

• stating that “[a] witness identifying an accused may detail all the facts within his personal knowledge bearing on the identification; any fact which shows the acquaintance and familiarity of the -8- witness testifying to the identity of the accused is admissible”
• evidence showing familiarity of witness to the identity of the accused is admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Logan v. Fairfax County Department of Human Development
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 956×
• Lee v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 337×
• Berry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-04-02· cited 26×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-15· cited 14×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 13×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-09-26· cited 8×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-02-07· cited 7×
• Black v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-11· cited 6×
• Lockhart v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-15

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 172×
• Coe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 150×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 131×
• Donahue v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 87×
• Whitley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-01-22· cited 86×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 75×
• Albert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 57×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-06-12· cited 57×
• Ruffin v. Austin
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 57×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 53×
• Eccles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 52×
• Day v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-03-07· cited 47×
• Gabbard v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-09-02· cited 44×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-10-08· cited 42×
• Hawks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 41×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 38×
• Stotler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-07-01· cited 33×
• Henderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 29×