Taylor v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that Code § 18.2-47 contains no categorical exception for parents other than what subsection (D) already provides
• holding that defendant’s status as fiancee to the unwed father of the ten-month-old victim did not excuse the defendant’s actions in assisting in the kidnapping of the child because the right of the father to immediate custody of the child was inferior to that of the mother
• “The word ‘justification’ simply means ‘[a] lawful or sufficient reason for one’s acts or omissions.” (alteration in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Muhammad v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-04-22· cited 379×
• Clanton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-03-17· cited 283×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-24· cited 120×
• Carter v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-06-10· cited 51×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 41×
• State v. Montanez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-04-18· cited 30×
• United States v. Homaune
  District of Columbia· 2012-10-15· cited 25×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-06-29· cited 16×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-12-14· cited 6×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-08-04· cited 6×
• Washington v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08
• Herring v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2014-06-05
• Frank Boyd, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-07-14
• Joseph E. Brown v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-05-10
• Osman Osman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-02-14

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stanley v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 5,889×
• Lehr v. Robertson
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 1,333×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 109×
• Diehl v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-24· cited 18×
• Brown v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-11-20· cited 18×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-11-23· cited 13×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-11-24· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-06-10· cited 4×