West 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 “for a hearsay declaration which contains hearsay within it to be admissible, both the primary hearsay declaration and each hearsay declaration included within it must conform to a recognized exception to the hearsay rule”
• “Since [mother] sought to have the hearsay testimony admitted, the burden was on [mother] to show that the declaration fell within an exception to the rule against hearsay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Swann (ORDER)
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2015-08-28· cited 390×
• Ragland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-17· cited 133×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-06-11· cited 116×
• Hanson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 84×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 32×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-11-04· cited 19×
• Lynch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-16· cited 16×
• Smoot v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-28· cited 16×
• Bowman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 14×
• Swanson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-04-27· cited 7×
• Clay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-10-05· cited 6×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 166×
• Kauffmann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-11· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Gil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-11-06· cited 87×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 75×
• Arnold v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-06-02· cited 40×
• Penny v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 35×
• Foley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 34×
• Schindel v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 27×
• Foley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-10-10· cited 23×
• State v. Golden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-10· cited 17×
• State v. Reagan
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1983-06-14· cited 14×