Thompson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that reading or hearing the news about the trial does not “in every case amount to prejudicial misconduct by the jury as a matter of law [though] [s]ome publicity to which jurors have been exposed . . . may have effectively prejudiced the jury in its deliberation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Williams
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 134×
• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 118×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 112×
• In Re Times-World Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 32×
• Keil v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 8×
• Billman v. State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corp.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-28· cited 8×
• Dorian Omar Chavarria v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-04-07

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Marshall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 727×
• Carden v. Spilman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1847-09-15· cited 132×
• United States v. Paul N. Hankish, and James L. Matthews
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-07-17· cited 69×
• Asbury v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 36×
• State v. McLaughlin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1959-01-13· cited 35×
• State v. Williams
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1976-12-21· cited 15×