Smith 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 an appellant bears the burden of submitting a record that enables the court to determine whether there has been an abuse of trial court discretion
• holding that the appellant bore the burden of presenting a record sufficient to permit the appellate court to conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion for a continuance
• observing that an appellant bears the burden to present a sufficient record from which a reviewing court can determine whether the lower court has erred
• the appellant has the burden on appeal to provide a complete record which will enable this Court to fully review a claim of error
• “An appellate court must dispose of the case upon the record and cannot base its decision upon appellant’s petition or brief, or statements of counsel in open court.”
• an appellant must submit a record that enables this Court to determine whether the trial court committed error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Robinson v. Robinson
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-08-07· cited 117×
• Thomas Pope, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-31· cited 52×
• Patterson v. City of Richmond
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-19· cited 48×
• Janine Helen Adelman Browning v. Larry Grant Browning
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-07-25· cited 44×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-22· cited 40×
• Robert Allen Wilkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-05-12· cited 36×
• Oliver v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-04-17· cited 35×
• Andre Eugene Sanders v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-05-26· cited 30×
• Bullock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-07-05· cited 25×
• Leslie Hermaned Green, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-01· cited 25×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-21· cited 20×
• Laurence Maria Smith, s/k/a Laurence Marie Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-16· cited 16×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-02· cited 12×
• Jiron-Garcia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-08-22· cited 11×
• King William County and Virginia Association of Counties Group v. Linda Jones
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-01· cited 10×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-06-19· cited 9×
• Seaborn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-07-28· cited 8×
• Tammy Mae Frazier v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-08-29· cited 7×
• Lightfoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 6×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Justis v. Young
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-04-24· cited 169×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-07-10· cited 57×
• Shifflett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 52×
• Gilchrist v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 38×