Murphy 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 the sentencing judge considered all of the evidence in mitigation
• dismissing a defendant’s contentions that the trial court did not consider mitigating circumstances because the trial court listed the mitigating factors it considered
• rejecting the contention that the court did not consider mitigating evidence that it did not mention when announcing its decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Beck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-04-18· cited 170×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-08· cited 109×
• Teleguz v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-04-20· cited 106×
• Lenz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 98×
• Mario Benjamin Murphy v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, Mario Benjamin Murphy v. J.D. Netherland, Warden, United Mexican States, Amicus Curiae
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-06-19· cited 96×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-03-01· cited 86×
• Lovitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 71×
• Remington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 69×
• Joseph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 68×
• Burket v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 61×
• Sheppard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-11-03· cited 59×
• Chichester v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-09-16· cited 59×
• Walton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-06-05· cited 58×
• Hedrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-02-26· cited 49×
• Steve Edward Roach v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-04· cited 46×
• Hawthorne v. VanMarter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-04-15· cited 40×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-02-28· cited 35×
• Reid v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-11-06· cited 25×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-03-05· cited 23×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 168×
• Coppola v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 162×
• Deboue v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 160×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-11-06· cited 154×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 132×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Strickler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 95×
• Waye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 95×
• Mueller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 92×
• Quesinberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 86×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 81×
• Savino v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-04-20· cited 69×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 59×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 38×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-04-17· cited 35×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 34×
• Davidson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 27×
• Stout v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-01-13· cited 26×