Stewart v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the predecessor to Code § 8.01-398 shields confidential communications
• stating “[t]he privilege of an accused to prevent his spouse from testifying against him is determined at the time of trial and depends upon the couple being validly married at the time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Church v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-10-11· cited 71×
• McDuffie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-12-19· cited 53×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1981-02-10· cited 36×
• Weishaupt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-04-27· cited 28×
• State v. Evans
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 20×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 19×
• Knox v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 15×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-27· cited 7×
• Livingston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-02-13· cited 7×
• Crenshaw v. Crenshaw
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-13· cited 7×
• People v. Wallace
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1988-12-05· cited 6×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 5×
• Juannitto H. Edwards, etc v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-06-06· cited 4×
• Miller v. Miller
  Henrico County Circuit Court· 1986-12-09
• Commonwealth v. Shifflett
  Page County Circuit Court· 2000-06-16

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Surratt, Adm'r v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-09-01· cited 57×
• Menefee v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-09-07· cited 28×
• Hunt v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1904-02-27· cited 23×
• Leigh v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-09-05· cited 23×
• State v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1927-07-09· cited 23×
• Vigilant Insurance v. Bennett
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-09-14· cited 17×
• Korman v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-06-13· cited 17×
• Edmonds v. Edmonds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-09-25· cited 17×
• People v. Morton
  New York Court of Appeals· 1954-12-31· cited 16×
• Beasley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-09-21· cited 16×
• Osborne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 7×
• Stevens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-09-09· cited 2×