Powell v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming express waiver of various constitutional rights, including rights to counsel, to trial by jury, to sequester the jury, and to speedy trial
• affirming express waiver of various constitutional rights, including rights to counsel, to trial by jury, to sequester the jury, and to speedy trial
• a trial court may impose a valid sentence in substitution for a void one even though the defendant has begun serving the void sentence
• a trial court may impose a valid sentence in substitution for a void one even though the defendant has begun serving the void sentence
• lack of defendant’s presence at sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-02-02· cited 123×
• Sedlacek v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1946-12-27· cited 99×
• State ex rel. Boner v. Boles
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-07-17· cited 47×
• Batts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-06-08· cited 45×
• Crutchfield v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-03-01· cited 39×
• Royster v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 34×
• Deagle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-10-08· cited 33×
• Zackus H. Ingram v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1966-10-04· cited 32×
• Rawls v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-09-18· cited 28×
• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-01-28· cited 27×
• Segura v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1966-03-14· cited 24×
• State v. Porter
  Montana Supreme Court· 1964-03-17· cited 23×
• Smyth v. Morrison
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-03-16· cited 21×
• State v. Fountaine
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1967-07-12· cited 16×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-12-02· cited 14×
• Near v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-09-02· cited 14×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 13×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-03-06· cited 10×
• Teasley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-10-11· cited 9×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-06-16· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Murphy v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1900-03-01· cited 135×
• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• Henning v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1886-05-11· cited 64×
• Bryant v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1914-03-16· cited 60×
• Heck v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1915-03-12· cited 39×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-01-08· cited 31×
• McKinney v. Smith
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1886-05-21· cited 26×
• State v. Craighead
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1905-02-13· cited 25×
• Arnold v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1922-04-14· cited 24×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-01-14· cited 23×
• Woods v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1871-10-15· cited 23×
• Breese v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1901-02-07· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-10-19· cited 21×
• Peiffer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1851-04-14· cited 18×
• People v. Casino
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1920-12-21· cited 18×
• Bond v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1887-06-30· cited 17×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-06-08· cited 9×
• Colley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1927-04-14· cited 7×
• Owens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 6×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-12-06· cited 4×