Snyder 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 trial court erred in not granting an instruction which mandated the defendant be found innocent of burglary if he entered the dwelling with the permission of the victim regardless of whether he entered with the intent to rape the victim once inside
• stating that the rape victim’s story was not “improbable” and the “conflicts in her testimony . . . were not so material or so unusual that her version of the events on the night in question was rendered unbelievable as a matter of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wactor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-05-28· cited 291×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 162×
• Guill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 107×
• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 101×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• MacKall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 89×
• Hoke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-03-03· cited 61×
• Hilton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-04-13· cited 56×
• Nelms v. Nelms
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 52×
• Quyen Vinh Phan Le v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-07-28· cited 51×
• Yeager v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-20· cited 13×
• Kehinde v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-01-07· cited 13×
• Myers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-02-05· cited 12×
• Edmondson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-09-16· cited 10×
• Thomas Haynesworth v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-06· cited 2×
• Keefer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-07-13· cited 2×
• Yorhonda Milldred Pooler, s/k/a Yorhonda Mildred Pooler v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-11-19
• Rakim Malik Nottingham v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-05-25

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Willis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 52×
• Woods v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-11-21· cited 34×
• Poindexter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 30×
• Oak Knolls Realty Corp. v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29· cited 21×
• Wynne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 19×
• Wansley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-09-11· cited 16×
• Barnett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 6×