Samuels v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that every act of a court of competent jurisdiction is presumed to have been rightly done
• stating that every act of a court of competent jurisdiction is presumed to have been rightly done
• affirming the trial court’s factual finding that appellant was represented by counsel in a prior conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Esparza v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-27· cited 29×
• Vester v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-09· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Moncrea
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2026-04-02

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burgett v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,632×
• Parke v. Raley
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-19· cited 1,268×
• Nichols v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 832×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-14· cited 126×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-02· cited 73×
• Nicely v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-09-16· cited 64×
• Dunn v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 62×
• Littlejohn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-18· cited 55×
• Sargent v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 42×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-24· cited 35×
• Griswold v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-06-07· cited 24×
• Griswold v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-01-10· cited 15×
• Nesselrodt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-20· cited 10×