Spear 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 giving a justifiable homicide instruction when “[t]he refused instruction was predicated upon defendant’s evidence and was a correct statement of the law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pierson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 44×
• Mersereau v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2012-09-26· cited 35×
• Phillips v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1979-06-28· cited 32×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 27×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-26· cited 14×
• Goode v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 5×
• Henshaw v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-10-07· cited 3×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Skipper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-03-15· cited 24×
• Hale v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 22×
• Campbell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-06-14· cited 15×