Robertson 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 without evidence of mishandling, the Commonwealth does not need to present testimony from mail carriers to satisfy chain of custody for sealed evidence
• stating that in order to disregard a witness' testimony as a matter of law, the evidence must be inherently incredible or the witness' account of the events must be unworthy of belief
• “In the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, courts may presume that public officers have properly discharged their official duties.”
• chain of custody established when police sealed evidence, mailed it through postal service, and lab received it sealed

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Cited by

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

• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-24· cited 120×
• Moyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-25· cited 90×
• Crews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-29· cited 64×
• Jeter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-18· cited 62×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-09-12· cited 46×
• Alvarez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-27· cited 43×
• Holsapple v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-01-14· cited 38×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-23· cited 35×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-07-11· cited 34×
• Lilly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-07-31· cited 33×
• Dunn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-18· cited 25×
• Hargrove v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-03-17· cited 20×
• Hsiu Tsai v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-22· cited 15×
• Gilmore v. Landsidle
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-11-01· cited 14×
• Asa v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-22· cited 14×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 10×
• Singleton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-21· cited 9×
• Clements v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-05-18· cited 7×
• Darren D. Snowden v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-10-29· cited 5×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 162×
• Schneider v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 148×
• Pope v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 116×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-06-14· cited 55×
• Rodgers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-11-28· cited 52×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 29×
• Horsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 25×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 25×
• Murdock v. Nelms
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-01-17· cited 9×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 8×
• Dotson v. Petty
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-07· cited 7×
• United States v. Cook
  N.D. West Virginia· 1983-05-31· cited 4×

Other cases named Robertson v. Commonwealth

20 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-04-26· cited 121×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-14· cited 97×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-05· cited 31×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-04-01· cited 25×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-11-23· cited 23×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 19×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1937-06-22· cited 18×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-08-22· cited 12×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1938-10-14· cited 8×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-19· cited 5×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1894-11-08· cited 5×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-09-11· cited 4×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1895-06-20· cited 4×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-10-23· cited 2×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1897-05-15· cited 2×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1923-04-20· cited 2×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Richmond County Circuit Court· 1993-01-25· cited 2×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1941-10-14
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-06-10
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1894-06-19