Powers v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing appellant’s reckless driving conviction where the Court had “no way of - 15 - determining from the evidence in [the] record how and why the accident happened”
• interpreting Code § 46.1-189, the predecessor statute to Code § 46.2-852
• mere happening of an accident does not give rise to an inference of reckless driving
• mere happening of an accident does not give rise to an inference of reckless driving
• “The word ‘recklessly’ . . . imparts a disregard by the driver of a motor vehicle for the consequences of his act and an indifference to the safety of life, limb or property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-05· cited 712×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-12-14· cited 122×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• Crawford v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-01-13· cited 95×
• Molina v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-10· cited 79×
• Dowdy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 71×
• Crest v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 53×
• Raymond Charles Case v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-02-11· cited 43×
• Powell v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-09-17· cited 40×
• Bishop v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-01-11· cited 28×
• Kennedy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-02-18· cited 21×
• Thompson v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-02-27· cited 19×
• Adkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-16· cited 19×
• Tart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-15· cited 18×
• Steven Joseph Blevins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-08-26· cited 14×
• Bacon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-02-29· cited 10×
• Jetton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 9×
• Jose Canales Granados v. Merrick Garland
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-11-04· cited 6×
• Linda Eugene Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-05· cited 4×
• Gonzin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-10-25· cited 3×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cameron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 50×
• Grasty v. Tanner
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-01-17· cited 38×
• Richter v. Seawell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-11-20· cited 36×
• Lamb v. Parsons
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-11-30· cited 9×
• Hicks v. Cassidy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-03-04· cited 2×
• Salyer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-09-19· cited 2×