Pierce 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 a portion of a confession irrelevant to the charged offense need not be introduced into evidence
• explaining that this doctrine applies only to separate portions of a single statement made on a single occasion
• inadmissible statements could have been removed from written transcript without adverse effect on entire statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pugliese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-09· cited 207×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-09-21· cited 27×
• Ascher v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-13· cited 26×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-02· cited 6×
• Satterfield v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-05· cited 3×
• Jimmerson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-12-10· cited 1×
• Cassandra Marcelle Murray v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-01-14
• James Thomas Curry v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-04-01

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 69×
• Fleenor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-10-13· cited 29×
• Parrish v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1884-11-28· cited 22×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 21×
• Marshall v. Goughnour
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 20×
• Bowman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-11-20· cited 10×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  General Court of Virginia· 1838-12-15· cited 5×