Spencer 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 DNA evidence is reliable and affirming the trial court’s admission of such evidence
• evidence of DNA test held inadmissible under the particular facts, but court noted that reliability of those tests is now generally accepted and such evidence is generally admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

78 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kelly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-02-05· cited 1,156×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 320×
• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• State v. Cauthron
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-02-25· cited 207×
• Dowden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 206×
• Darius Oneil Dalton v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-03-31· cited 190×
• Satcher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 188×
• Goins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-04-19· cited 178×
• State v. Schwartz
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-11-03· cited 141×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-04-21· cited 138×
• United States v. Adrian Paul Martinez
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-09-02· cited 127×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-01-31· cited 124×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 119×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-07-23· cited 107×
• Beavers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Rodgers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-26· cited 98×
• Burns v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-03-02· cited 96×
• State v. Anderson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-08-25· cited 90×
• Quesinberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 86×
• Engberg v. Meyer
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-10-17· cited 84×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Edmonds v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 261×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Townes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 187×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-11-18· cited 168×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 154×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Pope v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 116×
• Quintana v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 114×