Stevens 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 there was evidence to reject the hypothesis of innocence where the defendant had a clear escape route but instead drove his vehicle at the motorcycle officer

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-05· cited 712×
• Shawanda S. Thorne v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-04-19· cited 62×
• Jack Randall Young v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-07-30· cited 45×
• Baldwin v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-06-08· cited 29×
• Holley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-02· cited 24×
• Hargrove v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-03-17· cited 20×
• Calvin Donnell Jennings v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-05-02· cited 11×
• Mark Spencer Cady v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-08-11
• Michael Melvin Fary v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-04-18
• Dean Anton Vitasek v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-01-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Archer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-10· cited 692×
• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Hamilton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-20· cited 264×
• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• Essex v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 189×
• Ridley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 139×
• Crawley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 131×
• NOBLES, IV v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 126×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 98×
• Haywood v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-07-05· cited 98×
• Moody v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-12-22· cited 94×
• Wynn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-11-17· cited 67×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-29· cited 20×