Lilly 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 in the defendant’s trial for driving as a habitual offender, information about the mandatory minimum sentence and the partial repeal of the habitual offender statute was not relevant to the factual issues before the jury
• stating that federal due process principles “subsume any analysis of parallel provisions in the Virginia Constitution”
• rejecting the defendant’s claim that due process entitled her to a jury instruction about the mandatory minimum sentence in the guilt phase of trial
• “‘[S]pecification of punishments’ [are] matters ordinarily understood as ‘peculiarly questions of legislative policy.’” (emphasis added
• sketching the law’s statutory history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Flanagan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-30· cited 217×
• Cole v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-02· cited 89×
• Commonwealth of Virginia v. Rayshawn Torrell Greer
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-07-22· cited 59×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-06-28· cited 33×
• Roadcap v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-18· cited 32×
• Warren Anthony Thomas v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-01-24· cited 16×
• Doe v. Fairfax Cnty. Sch. Bd.
  E.D. Virginia· 2019-05-29· cited 10×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-05-18· cited 5×
• Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-17· cited 4×
• Thomas Haynesworth v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-06· cited 2×
• Chris Antonio Holloway v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-08-04
• Norman L. Blowe, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-10-27
• Devinceo Dontre Heart v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-09-13
• Dilliraj Bista v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-12-06
• Dilliraj Bista v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-01-10
• Travis Alexander Bland Henderson, s/k/a Travis Alexander Bland-Henderson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-04-11
• Dilliraj Bista v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-09-12
• Jeffrey Douglas Cheripka v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-09-19
• Lawrence McNally v. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-03-26

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Dandridge v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 3,777×
• Chapman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 1,362×
• United States v. Grayson
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 708×
• Ex Parte United States
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 540×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 153×
• Mouberry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-01-21· cited 82×
• Pulliam v. Coastal Emergency Services of Richmond, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 81×
• Boyd v. County of Henrico
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-24· cited 57×
• Harrison v. Day
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-03-16· cited 48×
• In Re Phillips
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-01-10· cited 43×
• Marine Development Corp. v. Rodak
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 41×
• Newton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-06· cited 31×
• Peery v. Virginia Board of Funeral Directors & Embalmers
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-11-27· cited 29×
• Varga v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 26×
• Rowley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-05-02· cited 26×
• In Re Com., Commonwealth's Attorney
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-03-08· cited 26×
• Willis v. Mullett
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-04-09· cited 25×
• City of Newport News v. Elizabeth City County
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-09-07· cited 24×