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.

• construing the statute to mean that facts, not opinions, in a medical examiner’s report are accorded the dignity of prima facie evidence
• attested copies of laboratory reports of chemical analysis by state medical examiner of vaginal swabs from alleged rape victim admissible as official record--no violation of confrontation clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-01· cited 87×
• State v. Kreck
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-11-20· cited 72×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-07-19· cited 30×
• Charles Kreck v. James Spalding
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-12-13· cited 28×
• State v. Moore
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-03-29· cited 13×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 9×
• Claud v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-03-04· cited 8×
• Bass v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-03-06· cited 6×
• United States Life Insurance v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-11-26· cited 5×
• Robertson v. Cox
  W.D. Virginia· 1970-10-02· cited 3×
• Barber v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-01-17· cited 2×
• Lucas v. Riverhill Poultry, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2021-07-01
• Curzio Construction, Inc. v. Zoning Appeals Board
  Warren County Circuit Court· 2003-11-15

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ernest Kay v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-05-17· cited 126×
• Russell v. Hammond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-01-26· cited 17×
• Life Insurance v. Brockman
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-06-12· cited 13×
• State v. Reddick
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-12-17· cited 11×
• Brooks v. Hufham
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-01-26· cited 10×
• Bailey v. C. v. Hunter, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 8×
• Kay v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 4×