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 premeditation means adopting a specific intent to kill, distinguishing first from second degree murder
• holding that premeditation means adopting a specific intent to kill
• stating that a jury may “consider all the actions and conduct of the defendant before, at the time of, and after the murder”
• where a woman died from a “large depressed skull fracture caused by blunt force applied to the . . . head”
• “To premeditate means to adopt a specific intent to kill, and that is what distinguishes first and second degree murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Branch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-14· cited 210×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-02-09· cited 99×
• Lenz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 98×
• Clozza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 98×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-03-02· cited 97×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 84×
• Aldridge v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-28· cited 78×
• Remington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 69×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 61×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 54×
• Goodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 44×
• Stokes v. Warden, Powhatan Correctional Center
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 39×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-23· cited 35×
• Betancourt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 30×
• Stephen M. Epperly v. E.L. Booker, Warden Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-06-15· cited 28×
• Archie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-16· cited 24×
• Tibbs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-07· cited 17×
• Duncan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 17×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,268×
• Akers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-06-13· cited 68×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• Pannill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-06-10· cited 57×
• Chittum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 38×
• Williamson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-12-07· cited 30×
• Griggs v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 29×
• McDaniel v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1883-03-15· cited 22×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-09-01· cited 10×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-11-24· cited 6×
• McMurray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 6×