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.

• ‘“The right to life and to personal security is not only sacred in the estimation of the common law, but it is inalienable’ ”
• “It has long been the settled rule in Virginia that words alone, however grievous or insulting, cannot justify taking human life with a deadly weapon . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Washington v. Glucksberg
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 2,664×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 195×
• Canipe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-14· cited 141×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-29· cited 62×
• Fletcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-03-10· cited 50×
• Newberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-10-10· cited 46×
• State v. Fuller
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1979-05-01· cited 34×
• State v. Fransua
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1973-05-04· cited 33×
• Timmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-03-04· cited 23×
• Barber v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-06-14· cited 23×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-10-10· cited 18×
• Westry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 17×
• Morris v. Brandenburg
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-08-11· cited 17×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29· cited 16×
• Laurence Maria Smith, s/k/a Laurence Marie Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-16· cited 16×
• State v. Collier
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1985-05-28· cited 14×
• State v. Brown
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1976-08-05· cited 14×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-05-07· cited 11×
• Henry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 8×
• Edinburgh v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-02-27· cited 5×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1882-10-31· cited 53×
• Roark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-01-24· cited 44×
• Ballard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-06-18· cited 37×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 32×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 22×
• Wallen v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 19×
• Staples v. Spence
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-03-02· cited 10×
• Clinton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-01-11· cited 5×
• Mosby v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-03-11· cited 5×