Moore v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that where motive is a relevant fact, evidence of other offenses is admissible if it shows the conduct or attitude of the accused toward his victim or establishes the relationship between the parties
• finding evidence of other bad acts committed a year and a half before was still relevant
• citing, inter alia, Kirkpatrick, 211 Va. at 272,176 S.E.2d at 805
• admitting evidence of attempted sexual acts as probative evidence regarding charges of fondling
• permitting the introduction of evidence of prior bad acts by the accused against the same victim for purposes of showing “the ongoing nature of their relationship” and for “negat[ing] the possibility that the defendant’s touching of [the victim] was accidental”
• evidence that defendant charged with sex crimes against a child sexually abused the same child both before and after the incidents in question was properly admitted because relevant to the question of lascivious intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Donoho
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-04-03· cited 617×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Kauffmann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-11· cited 125×
• Ortiz v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 111×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-03-02· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Lavalley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-07-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Minor
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 50×
• Freeman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 50×
• State v. Kendricks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-12-05· cited 47×
• Hawks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 41×
• Godwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 40×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 39×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 38×
• Blaylock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-17· cited 33×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 27×
• Whittington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 27×
• Cecelia Leigh Burnette v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-31· cited 21×
• Shifflett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-20· cited 18×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Cartera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 109×
• Ryan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 65×
• Eccles v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 52×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-01-15· cited 28×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 23×
• Pepoon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-10-08· cited 23×
• Niblett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 23×
• Cumbee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-04-20· cited 20×
• Brooks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-10-05· cited 19×
• Waitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 18×
• Stump v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-09-20· cited 17×
• Clere v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29· cited 11×