Payne v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding admission of evidence that the inmate defendant’s stated motive in killing the inmate victim was to “prove himself’ in order to be admitted into a prison gang
• no error for inmate-witnesses to be handcuffed where jurors were aware that they “were . . . convicted felons and that the crime took place inside a penal institution”
• defendant failed to make timely request that witnesses not be forced to wear restraints

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Smith
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1997-10-15· cited 2,042×
• Deck v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 2005-05-23· cited 1,034×
• State v. Keenan
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-02-25· cited 329×
• Porter v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-06-06· cited 300×
• Landrum v. CHIPPENHAM AND JOHNSTON-WILLIS
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-11-04· cited 245×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 168×
• George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-03-14· cited 115×
• Lenz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 98×
• MacKall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 89×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-03-01· cited 86×
• Bailey v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-04-21· cited 74×
• Chandler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-03-03· cited 71×
• Remington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 69×
• Yarbrough v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-09-17· cited 59×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-06-05· cited 59×
• Utz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-10-20· cited 57×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Rafferty
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 53×
• State v. Keenan
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-02-24· cited 53×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-01-14· cited 155×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 154×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 132×
• Cartera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 109×
• Poyner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-04-26· cited 106×
• Kenneth Granviel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-11· cited 100×
• Clozza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 98×
• Odum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 91×
• Bassett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 75×
• Beaver v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 62×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 52×
• Saunders v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 39×
• Ballard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 20×
• Hutchins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 17×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 15×