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 the defendant had not put his character in issue by testifying and thus the Commonwealth erred by presenting rebuttal evidence of his bad reputation as a law-abiding citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fields v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 28×
• McCarter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-07-23· cited 20×
• Via v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 16×
• Pughsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-31· cited 7×
• Smith v. Slayton
  W.D. Virginia· 1973-12-11· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Carolino
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2024-12-12

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Land v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-09-04· cited 46×