Martin 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 evidence supported an inference that the defendant intended only to scare an officer where he lunged with a knife while trying to escape, immediately disengaged when the officer fell backwards, and then resumed his flight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-09· cited 625×
• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• Neal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-08· cited 147×
• West v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-15· cited 132×
• Crawley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 131×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 100×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-21· cited 99×
• Perry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-09· cited 97×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-01· cited 83×
• Brandau v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-05-25· cited 70×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-10· cited 57×
• Cherry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-23· cited 49×
• M. Morgan Cherry & Associates, Ltd. v. Cherry
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-20· cited 49×
• Welch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-22· cited 47×
• Goodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 44×
• Hamm v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-30· cited 40×
• Hunt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-12· cited 35×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-07-05· cited 34×
• Broady v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 34×
• Bindu Bajgain v. Devendra Bajgain
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-03-17· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• Sansone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-29· cited 851×
• Campbell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 275×
• Jimenez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 170×
• Justis v. Young
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-04-24· cited 169×
• McClung v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-03-10· cited 89×
• Hargrave v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 77×
• Wynn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-11-17· cited 67×
• Blondel v. Hays
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 67×
• Harlow v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 60×
• Belton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-06-16· cited 55×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 43×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 42×
• Bryant v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-12-01· cited 28×
• Cortner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-09-11· cited 24×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-08-14· cited 18×
• Woods v. Hunt and Son, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 18×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-11-14· cited 18×
• Guss v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 17×