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.

• finding that when employing the without-fault self-defense, the appellant must “have been without fault in the ‘minutest degree.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 176×
• Harlow v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-10-12· cited 60×
• Morgen Industries, Inc. v. Vaughan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-06-07· cited 57×
• Ross v. Schneider
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-10-11· cited 20×
• Newton v. City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-03-11· cited 19×
• Van Dyke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-04-25· cited 16×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 13×
• Solomon v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-03-01· cited 13×
• Banks v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-09-05· cited 6×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dodson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-01-12· cited 36×
• James v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-03-13· cited 32×
• James v. Haymes
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-03-16· cited 30×
• Pauley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-09-20· cited 17×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-11-16· cited 11×
• Hardyman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-01-16· cited 3×