Mason v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• capital murder in the commission of rape, both future dangerousness and vileness found
• capital murder case in which accused pled guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 284×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Fox v. Custis
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 249×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Coppola v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 162×
• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 143×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-01-07· cited 143×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 128×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 123×
• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 118×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 112×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Beavers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 99×
• Burns v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-03-02· cited 96×
• Briley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 82×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Willie Lloyd Turner v. David A. Williams, Warden, Powhatan Correctional Center
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-09-15· cited 71×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• United States Ex Rel. Smith v. Baldi
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 253×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Peyton v. King
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-09-05· cited 95×
• Waye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 95×
• Jessie Wayne Satterfield v. Robert F. Zahradnick, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1978-05-22· cited 46×
• Slayton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-06-10· cited 42×
• United States v. John K. Smith
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-02-05· cited 26×
• Lawrence B. Havelock v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1970-07-24· cited 21×
• Houghtaling v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-10-14· cited 12×
• Webster v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1971-08-24· cited 10×
• Satterfield v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-22· cited 2×