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.

• recognizing prosecutorial discretion to proceed \under the misdemeanor statute or the felony statute\
• analyzing what constitutes escape from a law enforcement officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mozley v. Prestwould Board of Directors
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 40×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-06-28· cited 33×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-07· cited 20×
• Isiah David Joseph v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-02-10· cited 17×
• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-02-17· cited 12×
• George v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-01-15· cited 10×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 9×
• Dalton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-19· cited 7×
• Tariq Rashad Amin v. County of Henrico
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-10-31· cited 5×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-04-13· cited 5×
• Awkard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-14· cited 5×
• Hobson v. EW MURRAY
  E.D. Virginia· 1980-03-11· cited 4×
• Bishop v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-01-23· cited 3×
• Tariq Rashad Amin v. County of Henrico
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-04-01
• Neal Andrew Peters v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-08-04
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Winchester County Circuit Court· 1987-02-05
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1978-03-10
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Virginia Beach County Circuit Court· 1995-05-01
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Salem County Circuit Court· 1997-06-25
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1999-12-01

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wheeler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-09-05· cited 21×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-08-28· cited 11×
• Kelly v. Cox
  W.D. Virginia· 1972-12-20· cited 2×