Ward 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 a medical professional’s testimony about a victim’s “physical injuries tends to corroborate the victim’s testimony” regarding the events in question
• holding that it was not error to allow an expert to testify that the victim’s stroke did not cause her post-traumatic stress disorder
• holding that expert testimony on PTSD regarding rape was admissible when expert did not testify to the cause of the PTSD
• holding that a victim’s “physical injuries” tend to “corroborate the victim’s testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Artis v. Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-02-08· cited 115×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-03-22· cited 32×
• Conley v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-04-20· cited 20×
• Raymeka Monique White v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-12-05· cited 10×
• Fitzgerald v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-04-20· cited 7×
• McCarthy v. Atwood
  Portsmouth County Circuit Court· 2005-04-18

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 187×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-06-11· cited 133×
• Cartera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 109×
• Velazquez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 58×
• Bond v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 58×
• Llamera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-02-28· cited 50×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 39×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-23· cited 11×
• Loving v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-11-14· cited 7×