Simon 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 evidence of alcohol consumption was admissible to show reckless disregard of human life in retrial of prosecution for vehicular manslaughter
• holding that where the factual issue of defendant's intoxication was determined in his favor in a prior proceeding, Commonwealth was collaterally estopped from again litigating issue of defendant's intoxication
• remanding case and holding that Commonwealth is not precluded from prosecuting the defendant in a subsequent prosecution based on other evidence independent of the fact which the Commonwealth is collaterally estopped from proving
• remanding case and holding that Commonwealth is not precluded from prosecuting - 8 - the defendant in a subsequent prosecution based on other evidence independent of the fact which the Commonwealth is collaterally estopped from proving
• \Collateral estoppel becomes applicable only when the prior acquittal necessarily resolved the issue now in litigation\
• “Collateral estoppel becomes applicable only when the prior acquittal necessarily resolved the issue now in litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pijor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-12-28· cited 451×
• York v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-29· cited 156×
• People v. Goodman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-18· cited 77×
• Kaeo v. Davis
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1986-05-14· cited 62×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-08-02· cited 57×
• United States v. Felder
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-09-16· cited 50×
• Harrell v. Woodson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-03-06· cited 42×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-01-16· cited 34×
• State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Hamilton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-04-28· cited 32×
• Rogers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-12-01· cited 31×
• Elmore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-05-14· cited 30×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 29×
• Highsmith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-19· cited 27×
• Snyder v. City of Alexandria
  E.D. Virginia· 1994-11-30· cited 22×
• Loevsky v. Carter
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1989-05-04· cited 19×
• Painter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-12-20· cited 17×
• Ronald Taft Davis, III v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-02-25· cited 12×
• Baker v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-03-08· cited 11×
• Rice v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-11· cited 9×
• Jetton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 9×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Harris v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1971-11-16· cited 200×
• Turner v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 128×
• Donald M. Wingate v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State of Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-07-25· cited 128×
• United States v. Patrice Mespoulede, A/K/A \Patrice Fabre\
  Second Circuit· 1979-04-10· cited 116×
• United States v. Lawrence T. Day. United States of America v. Eric J. Sheffey
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-02-14· cited 111×
• Clodfelter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 104×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 88×
• Zirkle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-09-07· cited 85×
• Gardner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-05-03· cited 72×
• United States v. Estelle O. Nash
  Fourth Circuit· 1971-09-07· cited 58×
• Charles E. Oliphant v. Theodore Koehler, Warden, Marquette House of Corrections and Branch Prison
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-03-06· cited 58×
• Beck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-06-13· cited 42×
• United States v. Edward G. Venable
  Third Circuit· 1978-10-05· cited 38×
• CA JONES v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-09-02· cited 36×
• United States v. Percy Kills Plenty
  Eighth Circuit· 1972-09-13· cited 33×
• Lee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-04-20· cited 31×
• Clodfelter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 27×
• Alvin Green v. United States of America, James R. Taylor v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-03-30· cited 23×