Waldrop v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding prosecutor’s pre-evidentiary comment which “neither raised the expectation in the jury’s mind that appellant would testify nor challenged the jury to notice and possibly draw an inference from whether or not appellant testified”
• upholding prosecutor's pre-evidentiary comment which \neither raised the expectation in the jury's mind that appellant would testify nor challenged the jury to notice and possibly draw an inference from whether or not appellant testified\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Waldrop v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 33×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-03· cited 15×
• Hazel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-01· cited 6×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Traverso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 199×
• State v. Pierce
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 96×
• Coleman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1887-09-27· cited 58×
• United States v. James Gerald Carleo
  Tenth Circuit· 1978-05-12· cited 39×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-05-28· cited 34×
• Hines v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 29×
• Lambert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-05-03· cited 26×
• Holz v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-02-29· cited 24×
• Mendez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 17×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 14×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-08-10· cited 10×