Turner v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that failure to instruct jury on voluntary manslaughter was harmless because jury had rejected second degree murder conviction
• holding that by rejecting the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder, the jury necessarily rejected the factual basis upon which it might have rendered a voluntary manslaughter verdict
• “Voluntary manslaughter is defined as an intentional killing committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation.”
• “[W]e conclude that the jury in this ease, by rejecting the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder, necessarily rejected the factual basis upon which it might have rendered a verdict on the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter.”
• defining second degree murder under Virginia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-21· cited 342×
• Lynn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-12· cited 96×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-29· cited 62×
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 60×
• Com. v. Cary
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2006-01-13· cited 58×
• Carlos Matthew Bell v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-08-02· cited 57×
• Lamont Anthony Woods v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-03-08· cited 56×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-11-14· cited 42×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-07· cited 40×
• Herbin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 28×
• Connell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-27· cited 24×
• Cortez-Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-04-05· cited 19×
• Laurence Maria Smith, s/k/a Laurence Marie Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-01-16· cited 16×
• Chartis Property Casualty Co. v. Huguely
  D. Maryland· 2017-03-20· cited 11×
• 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×
• Gaines v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-05-21· cited 4×
• State v. Stephen Abbott
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• Thomas Robert Lienau v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-10-16
• LaShaunda Tenika Meekins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-28

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• Keeble v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 1,048×
• Lavinder v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-30· cited 364×
• LeVasseur v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 272×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 195×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 176×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-11-06· cited 154×
• Buchanan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 139×
• Phyllis Falconer v. Michael P. Lane and Neil F. Hartigan
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-06-29· cited 114×
• Boone v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 100×
• Childress v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-09· cited 95×
• McClung v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-03-10· cited 89×
• Hooker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-19· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Covil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 68×
• United States ex rel. Matthews v. Johnson
  Third Circuit· 1974-08-15· cited 66×
• Morse v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 57×
• Belton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-06-16· cited 55×
• Geschwendt v. Ryan
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-18· cited 49×
• State v. Benavidez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-09-10· cited 43×
• Moxley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-09-10· cited 30×