Stephens 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 record demonstrates that each shot that the defendant discharged from his firearm was a separate, identifiable act”
• noting that “Virginia’s constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy affords a defendant the same guarantees as the federal Double Jeopardy Clause”
• explaining that in a single trial setting the double jeopardy clause “does no more than prevent the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended” (quoting Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359, 366 (1983))
• “Virginia’s constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy affords a defendant the same guarantees as the federal Double Jeopardy Clause.”
• “where completed offense has occurred, a separate charge may be brought for a repetition of the same conduct”
• each act of shooting from vehicle constituted separate and distinct act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 56×
• Schwartz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-19· cited 52×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 43×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-11-29· cited 38×
• Schwartz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-17· cited 29×
• Hugo Alberto Sandoval v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-02-24· cited 24×
• De'Armond v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-27· cited 21×
• Severance v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-07-19· cited 19×
• Painter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-12-20· cited 17×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-06· cited 16×
• Sheng Jie Jin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-02-14· cited 16×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-06· cited 14×
• Joseph Louis Paduano v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-12-30· cited 12×
• Hall v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 10×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-03· cited 10×
• Hines v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-25· cited 10×
• Ostrander v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-03-18· cited 7×
• Rushing v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-07-26· cited 6×
• Hodnett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-05-11· cited 6×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• Alabama v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 1,589×
• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Busic v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 597×
• Jones v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 434×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-12-04· cited 116×
• Blythe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 81×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 74×
• Remington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-09-14· cited 69×
• Walton v. City of Roanoke
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-12-02· cited 59×
• Peterson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-12-15· cited 52×
• Bennefield v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-02-27· cited 38×
• Stephens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-03-20· cited 12×