Matthews 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 court has no jurisdiction to allow withdrawal of guilty plea more than 21 days after judgment entered
• holding that “ ‘ “it is well settled that a void decree or order is a nullity and may on proper application be vacated at any time.” ’ ”
• holding that “the findings required by the transfer statute are jurisdictional”
• holding, under earlier version of statute, that circuit court is without jurisdiction to transfer if neither the juvenile nor circuit court has made the required findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rook v. Rook
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-03-06· cited 114×
• Linda Patrice Hailey v. William B. Dorsey, Sheriff of the City of Williamsburg
  Fourth Circuit· 1978-07-06· cited 47×
• Virginia Department of Corrections v. Crowley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-04-27· cited 44×
• Winston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-17· cited 39×
• Norfolk Division of Social Services v. Unknown Father
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-06-17· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Southerly
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 36×
• Burfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-08-06· cited 34×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-03-05· cited 34×
• Burke v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-23· cited 19×
• Weese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-24· cited 11×
• Cheeks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-08-08· cited 9×
• Hairfield v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 8×
• In the Interest of Doe
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1976-12-28· cited 8×
• United States v. Ronald Lee Blevins
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-10-09· cited 5×
• Southerly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-07· cited 5×
• Bea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-08-11· cited 4×
• Russell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-29· cited 4×
• Pollard v. Riddle
  E.D. Virginia· 1976-08-27· cited 3×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2015-06-12· cited 1×
• Panameno v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cofer v. Cofer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-03-08· cited 97×
• Peyton v. French
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-04-25· cited 67×
• Powers v. Sutherland
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-09-17· cited 4×