Rainey 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 statute does not require that the accused must possess knowledge of the victim’s age when the sexual act takes place in order to constitute the crime of statutory rape.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Granberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 45×
• John Doe v. Gary Settle
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-01-28· cited 41×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-09-03· cited 39×
• United States v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2008-02-25· cited 37×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Childress
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-19· cited 22×
• Preddy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 10×
• Stephen James Kilpatrick v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-05-04
• Ray Allen Atkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-08-12

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 52×
• Buzzard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 38×
• Tucker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 20×
• Little v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-09-20· cited 17×
• Ballard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1927-11-17· cited 3×
• Richards v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-11-16· cited 3×