Robinson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• presumption held not applicable where Commonwealth failed to call every possible witness in proving its case
• a party may object to the answer to a question he asks only if the answer is not responsive
• “It is true that the failure of a party to call a material witness frequently raises a presumption that his testimony would not have been favorable to such party.”
• instruction on absent-witness presumption properly refused

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-08· cited 109×
• Neeley v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 44×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 38×
• Newton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-06· cited 31×
• Russell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 30×
• Garcia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-12-19· cited 19×
• Garcia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-07· cited 3×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-01-31· cited 2×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08
• Edwin U. Garcia, etc v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-09

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Altavista Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-06-15· cited 15×
• Robbins v. Old Dominion Power Company
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-06-10· cited 10×
• One International Harvester Co. Truck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 4×