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 “coupled with the evidence of defendant’s fingerprint, those ‘other circumstances’, discussed in Avent, [were] sufficient to create a rational inference that the defendant was the criminal agent”
• affirming murder conviction based on circumstantial evidence despite inconclusive analysis of blood on murder weapon
• “the hypotheses which must be reasonably excluded are those which flow from the evidence itself and not from the imagination of defendant’s counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Parks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 459×
• Pijor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-12-28· cited 451×
• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• Black v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 120×
• Walls v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 106×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-21· cited 99×
• Cirios v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 89×
• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-12-02· cited 86×
• Harward v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-01-19· cited 81×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 78×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 75×
• Tuggle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 65×
• Harrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-04· cited 55×
• Andrew Vojuan Burrous v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-12-12· cited 55×
• Amato v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 53×
• Fordham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-10-15· cited 45×
• Tyler v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-06-06· cited 38×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Avent v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-12-06· cited 58×
• Lawless v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-04-15· cited 36×
• State v. Kuhl
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1918-07-15· cited 32×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-04-24· cited 6×