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.

• “To permit evidence respecting extreme horrors which may result from the use of illegal substances diverts the jury from its principal inquiry and injects an element of passion into the trial prejudicial to the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 153×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-06-17· cited 32×
• Jayquane D. Perry v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-05· cited 30×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-07-12· cited 25×
• State v. Willis
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-04-07· cited 20×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-09-16· cited 14×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 3×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-01-25· cited 3×
• Shaquawn Demonte Warren v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-03-07
• Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-09-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Dennis Essington Green, United States of America v. Daniel S. Frano
  Sixth Circuit· 1977-02-11· cited 183×
• People v. Woody
  California Supreme Court· 1964-08-24· cited 171×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• Bunting v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-10-09· cited 74×
• Hinton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 45×
• Green v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 45×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-01-15· cited 15×