Rodgers v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that defendant was not particularly susceptible to religious entreaties, but further collecting cases from various jurisdictions in which “religious remarks were viewed as only one part of the totality of the circumstances and were held not to be coercive”
• finding the defendant’s statements to be voluntary even though the interrogators told him to “‘cast aside the devil’ and to get ‘straight with God’”
• finding defendant’s statements to be voluntary even though the interrogators told him to “cast aside the devil” and be “straight with God,” and claimed that his truthfulness may favorably impact the prosecutor’s decisions in the case
• “Even a lie on the part of an interrogating police officer does not, in and of itself, require a finding that a resulting confession was involuntary.”
• Religious appeals are only one part of the totality of the cireumstances.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Kauffmann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-11· cited 125×
• Poyner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-04-26· cited 106×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 78×
• Harrison v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-11-06· cited 72×
• Novak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 63×
• Sabo v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-04-09· cited 56×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 52×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 52×
• Grogg v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-08-16· cited 49×
• Mundy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-01· cited 48×
• Terrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-09· cited 47×
• Goodwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-07· cited 43×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-30· cited 35×
• Mersereau v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2012-09-26· cited 35×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Rushing
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-28· cited 20×
• Dunn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-09-09· cited 18×
• Arthur v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-02-04· cited 12×
• Harrison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-07· cited 12×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Frazier v. Cupp
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,468×
• Spano v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-22· cited 1,164×
• Davis v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 986×
• Clewis v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 543×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• United States v. Donna Ballard
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-12-22· cited 134×
• United States v. John T. Robinson
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-01-04· cited 101×
• Barrera v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1980-11-25· cited 71×
• United States v. Curtis
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-10-12· cited 59×
• State v. Hardimon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-10-02· cited 49×
• Elmer Davis, Jr. v. State of North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1964-12-08· cited 46×
• Sovalik v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-06-27· cited 30×
• Griggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 29×
• State v. Winters
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-09-23· cited 21×
• McCoy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 20×
• People v. Bowen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-07-25· cited 11×
• Townes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 6×