Richardson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a “mere violation” of the reckless- driving statute, by itself, “is insufficient to bring the negligent act within the common law definition of involuntary manslaughter”
• defendant, driving a tractor-trailer unit, attempted to pass another similar unit, drove onto the far left-hand shoulder of the highway and struck a pedestrian, walking with his back to the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Banovitch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 92×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 88×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-10-11· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Clowser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-21· cited 47×
• Conrad v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-11-30· cited 45×
• Tubman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-07· cited 40×
• St. Cyr v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1980-03-18· cited 20×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-03-08· cited 18×
• Karim v. Grover
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-06-10· cited 18×
• State v. Champ
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1952-04-12· cited 15×
• State of Oregon v. Smith
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1953-04-15· cited 11×
• White v. John Doe
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 8×
• Phillips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 7×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-02-21· cited 5×
• Loving v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-11-29· cited 3×
• Conrad v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-11· cited 3×
• State v. Rowell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-10-16· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Cady
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2021-10-28

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-03-10· cited 103×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-06-14· cited 34×
• Goodman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-01-16· cited 32×
• Albert v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-10-14· cited 18×
• People v. Warner
  California Court of Appeal· 1938-06-21· cited 10×