Parsons v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• statement of accused on the day of the murder that he was afraid of the victim relevant to material issue of self defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 166×
• Breeden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 125×
• United Construction Workers v. Laburnum Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-04-20· cited 55×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-10-23· cited 55×
• McLane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-10-10· cited 49×
• McGill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-24· cited 47×
• George v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-14· cited 45×
• Boggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-12-02· cited 41×
• Foley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 34×
• Temple v. Moses
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-04-08· cited 33×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 32×
• Briley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 32×
• Crockett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-04-26· cited 31×
• Educational Books, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-11-05· cited 29×
• Dingus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-09-19· cited 29×
• David v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-25· cited 28×
• Gosling v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 28×
• Harold v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1927-01-20· cited 25×
• McReynolds v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-06-09· cited 23×
• Bradbury v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 22×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Trefethen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-10-19· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Colandro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1911-04-10· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Abbott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1881-02-24· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Principatti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1918-03-18· cited 50×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1910-01-15· cited 15×
• Smithson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1910-12-15· cited 3×