Scott 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 intent to make the victim watch him “blow his brains out” was equivalent to intent to deprive of liberty
• recognizing that “in rape, robbery, and assault cases there is usually some [intrinsic] detention . . . of the victim”
• noting that the intention to persuade someone to have sexual intercourse is not the equivalent of the intent to defile
• noting that the intention to persuade someone to have sexual intercourse is not the equivalent of the intent to defile
• holding that where evidence of other bad acts or crimes is relevant, an accused is not entitled “to have the evidence ‘sanitized’ so as to deny the jury knowledge of all but the immediate crime for which he is on trial”
• holding that statutory abduction requires no proof of asportation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 320×
• Clanton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-03-17· cited 283×
• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 121×
• Ortiz v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 111×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-14· cited 97×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 91×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-06· cited 71×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Morse v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 57×
• Hoyt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-07· cited 53×
• Perkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-05· cited 52×
• Ferrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-11· cited 51×
• Swisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-11-06· cited 48×
• Simms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 46×
• George v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-14· cited 45×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 43×
• Godwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 40×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-11-29· cited 38×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 187×
• People v. Adams
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1973-03-27· cited 166×
• Ridley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 139×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-03-06· cited 55×
• Day v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-03-07· cited 47×
• Rees v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-10-08· cited 39×
• Tompkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29· cited 31×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-04-22· cited 25×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-09-09· cited 24×
• Timmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-03-04· cited 23×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 7×