Simmons v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction despite trial court’s failure to arraign the appellant on a charge because failure to arraign “could only have rendered the resulting judgment voidable if it had been subject to a proper and timely objection”
• “[A] court speaks through its orders and those orders are presumed to accurately reflect what transpired.” (quoting McBride v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 30, 35 (1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crain v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1896-04-20· cited 336×
• Porter v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-06-06· cited 300×
• Garland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1914-03-23· cited 249×
• Morrison v. Bestler
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-01-12· cited 225×
• United States v. Michael Crandale Williams
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-07-30· cited 106×
• McBride v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-21· cited 100×
• Humphreys v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-09-03· cited 70×
• Kern v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-03-18· cited 61×
• Noell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 54×
• Bilokur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 35×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 32×
• Cruz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-25· cited 24×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-06· cited 15×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-01-14· cited 13×
• Howerton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-17· cited 10×
• Cassidy v. Peyton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-06-16· cited 5×
• Lewis and Grant v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29· cited 4×