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.

• concluding that the movant’s “assert[ion] that he was prejudiced because the -4- trial court’s ruling prevented him from interviewing a potentially valuable witness who might have been able to discredit [a witness’s] identification of him” was mere speculation
• court denied motion for continuance based on defendant’s “speculation” that missing witness might be potentially valuable
• “Limitation of cross-examination is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court and is subject to review only for abuse of discretion.” (quoting Naulty v. Commonwealth, 2 Va. App. 523, 529, 346 S.E.2d 540, 543 (1986))
• unchallenged unilateral avowal of counsel may constitute sufficient proffer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-22· cited 198×
• Lynn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-12· cited 96×
• Cardwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 93×
• Langhorne v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-17· cited 93×
• Chichester v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-09-16· cited 59×
• Morse v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 57×
• Piedmont Manufacturing Co. v. East
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-21· cited 56×
• James Scott Witherow, II v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-01· cited 38×
• Archie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-16· cited 24×
• McGann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-15· cited 22×
• Hucks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 18×
• Hampton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-27· cited 13×
• Yeager v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-20· cited 13×
• Gregory William Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-22· cited 9×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-25· cited 8×
• Donkor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-13· cited 7×
• Leal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-19· cited 5×
• Lawrence McNally v. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-03-26
• Jadeen Keivon Person v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-03-24

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mounce v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-07· cited 245×
• Darnell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 237×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Traverso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 199×
• Whittaker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 148×
• Swisher v. Swisher & Craun
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-04-30· cited 144×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 68×
• Naulty v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-07-15· cited 57×
• Simms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 46×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 44×
• Speller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-06-17· cited 43×
• Fields v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 28×
• Whittington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 27×
• Blount v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-04-23· cited 23×
• Benson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-03-13· cited 23×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-20· cited 7×