Ricks v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• fingerprint of accused on \jar\ of stolen pennies, located inside private residence, the \scene of the crime\
• affirming convictions of a defendant whose fingerprint was found on a jar in the bedroom of the burglarized home
• noting that “the Commonwealth had no duty to go further than it did in negating [the defendant’s] hypothesis of innocence” when “the evidence of the [fingerprint] and the attendant facts demonstrate the accused was present at the scene when the crimes were committed”
• prints on jar inside bedroom of burglarized private home; no special access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-01-25· cited 108×
• State v. Watson
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1988-04-13· cited 39×
• Tyler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-06-06· cited 38×
• William Lee Tyler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-06-11· cited 4×
• Dewayne Oliver Winslow v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-12-23· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ernest S. Borum v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-06-28· cited 107×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 86×
• Avent v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-12-06· cited 58×
• Lawless v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-04-15· cited 36×