Taylor v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial judge erred in giving a jury instruction on self-defense which stated that the accused's fear should be evaluated from both the accused's subjective point-of-view and from the perspective of \'a reasonable man placed under similar circumstances'\
• holding that the trial judge erred in giving a jury instruction on self-defense which stated that the accused’s fear should be evaluated from both the accused’s subjective point-of-view and from the perspective of “ ‘a reasonable man placed under similar circumstances’ ”
• holding trial judge erred in giving jury instruction on self-defense which stated that the accused’s fear should be evaluated from both the accused’s subjective point-of-view and from the perspective of “a reasonable man placed under similar circumstances”
• holding trial judge erred in giving jury instruction on self-defense which stated that the accused's fear should be evaluated from both the accused's subjective point-of-view and from the perspective of \a reasonable man placed under similar circumstances\

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-01-17· cited 67×
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 60×
• Banner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-12-02· cited 40×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-09-03· cited 39×
• Peeples v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-10-05· cited 37×
• Perkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-10-13· cited 20×
• Gilbert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-11-10· cited 9×
• Peeples v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-29· cited 9×
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-10-16
• Gordon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-11-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Beard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-05-27· cited 149×
• Fortune v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-06-15· cited 37×
• Addington v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-02-01· cited 33×
• Wilkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-11-25· cited 31×
• Mercer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-03-22· cited 28×
• Thomason v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-11-24· cited 25×
• McReynolds v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-06-09· cited 23×
• Hale v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-01-16· cited 22×