Walker v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] defendant has a right to have his guilt or innocence, and punishment, determined by the evidence against him and not by what sentence has been imposed in another criminal prosecution against an accomplice, a co-defendant[,] or anyone else.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barlow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-27· cited 76×
• Stillwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 44×
• Mason v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-11-01· cited 25×
• Blount v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-04-23· cited 23×
• State Ex Rel. S. J. C. v. Fox
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-07-10· cited 21×
• State v. Singleton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1973-07-23· cited 18×
• Jefferson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 11×
• Robert Sylvester Davis, Jr. v. Commonwealth of VA
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-31· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Portsmouth County Circuit Court· 2004-10-22· cited 1×
• Isham D. Davis v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-31
• Jonathan Luis Jackson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-02-10

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×