Ramsey v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court erred in allowing expert in arson case to conclude, based upon set of hypothetical facts, that fire was of incendiary origin
• whether a fire was incendiary or accidental was an ultimate issue of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Coppola v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 162×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-01-14· cited 155×
• Tazewell Oil Co. v. United Virginia Bank/Crestar Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-01-10· cited 100×
• Bond v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 58×
• Compton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 51×
• Llamera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-02-28· cited 50×
• State v. Beavers
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-02-17· cited 48×
• Strawderman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-05-04· cited 41×
• Zelenak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-22· cited 40×
• Callahan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 30×
• Venable v. Stockner
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-05-04· cited 25×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-11-28· cited 24×
• Hussen v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 19×
• Johnathon Lane Justiss, a/k/a Jonathan Lane Justiss v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-12-11· cited 17×
• Schooler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-05· cited 15×
• Timmons v. Peyton
  E.D. Virginia· 1965-04-28· cited 10×
• Oliphant v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-03-07· cited 7×
• Dickerson v. Town of Christiansburg
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-11-30· 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×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-03-19· cited 68×
• Hanriot v. Sherwood
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1884-01-17· cited 25×
• Newton v. City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-03-11· cited 19×
• Redman v. Community Hotel Corp.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-06-16· cited 14×