Price 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 the trial court did not err when it allowed an expert in a child abuse case to testify that the victim suffered from battered child syndrome
• finding that jury may conclude appellant lied during his testimony to conceal his guilt
• “[A] jury [is] entitled to disbelieve [an] appellant’s self-serving testimony and to conclude that he was lying to conceal his guilt.”
• a doctor, qualified as an expert witness, stated his opinion that the child’s condition showed a “pattern of intentional physical abuse” known as “battered child syndrome”
• battered child syndrome evidence admissible when doctor did not testify that any specific injury was intentionally inflicted, merely that a pattern existed which supported his conclusion that the child suffered from battered child syndrome
• battered child syndrome evidence admissible when doctor did not testify that any specific injury was intentionally inflicted, merely that a pattern existed which supported his conclusion that the child suffered from battered child syndrome

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Zelenak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-22· cited 40×
• State v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-09-11· cited 37×
• State v. Norlin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-03-05· cited 34×
• Hetmeyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-10-04· cited 32×
• Woodard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-26· cited 15×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-23· cited 11×
• Hills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 7×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-12-20· cited 7×
• Zelenak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-22· cited 6×
• Hills v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-05-23· cited 2×
• Joseph E. Brown v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-05-10

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Estelle v. McGuire
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-04· cited 8,719×
• Traverso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 199×
• Speight v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 101×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-06-16· cited 98×
• Hubbard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-01-10· cited 89×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 75×
• Simpson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 70×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 67×
• State v. Tanner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-11-15· cited 67×
• State v. Dumlao
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1985-04-30· cited 65×
• Mullis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 64×
• Pugh v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 59×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 47×
• Callahan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 30×
• Walrod v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Rodgers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-28· cited 19×
• State v. Moyer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-06-12· cited 18×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-12-09· cited 17×
• Hubbard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-09· cited 15×
• Foundry v. Tune
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-01-07· cited 4×