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 psychiatric evidence, in a capital murder case, that defendant had the ability to form intentions and to premeditate, but that he did not have the capacity to follow through with his intentions was inadmissible
• upholding aggravated battery instruction where defendant shot an armed police officer after stating that he would shoot the first police officer he saw and that he hoped he would be shot in return
• \[O]nly Smith fired a rifle and ... the first shots fired were 'real sharp ... cracks' indicative of rifle fire....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Juniper v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-03-03· cited 345×
• Avent v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 190×
• Satcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 188×
• Herman Charles Barnes v. Charles E. Thompson, Warden, Herman Charles Barnes v. Charles E. Thompson, Warden
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-08-10· cited 187×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• Beck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-04-18· cited 170×
• Deboue v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 160×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-11-06· cited 154×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-06-11· cited 133×
• Weeks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 116×
• George v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 115×
• Teleguz v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-04-20· cited 106×
• Tizon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-04-03· cited 106×
• Strickler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 95×
• Mueller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 92×
• Roy Bruce Smith v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-04-24· cited 87×
• Thomas v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 87×
• Quesinberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 86×
• State v. Balderama
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-03-01· cited 85×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 76×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Floyd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 170×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 119×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 100×
• Waye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 95×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 84×
• Eckhart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 81×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 65×
• Barnes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 61×
• Delong v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 52×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-01-11· cited 52×
• Mu'Min v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-03-02· cited 47×
• Hawks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 41×