Williams 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 testimony of one witness which a trier of fact may have found inconclusive can become very convincing when other evidence corroborates it
• holding that testimony of one witness which a trier of fact may have found inconclusive can become very convincing when other evidence corroborates it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bazemore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 150×
• Luginbyhl v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-04-04· cited 117×
• Cousins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-05-25· cited 25×
• Andrew Gilbert Schmuhl v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-09-11· cited 22×
• Sheler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-07-09· cited 19×
• Cortez-Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-04-05· cited 19×
• Pierce v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-11-20· cited 18×
• Cairns v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-03-06· cited 7×
• Lashant Leonardo White v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-05-10· cited 5×
• Michael Jason Drexel v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-05-07
• James Thomas Curry v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-04-01

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Lilly v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-14· cited 1,183×
• Satterwhite v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-31· cited 926×
• Olden v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1988-12-12· cited 592×
• United States v. George M. Khoury, Howard Kluver, David W. West, Louis H. Chippas
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-06-07· cited 220×
• Timbers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 117×
• George v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 115×
• Cartera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 109×
• Hooker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-19· cited 88×
• Quesinberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-03-01· cited 86×
• Lilly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-11-05· cited 82×
• Watson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-14· cited 34×
• Albert Thompson v. William D. Leeke Attorney General of South Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-02-25· cited 18×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-03· cited 7×
• Howard v. Gavin
  S.D. Georgia· 1993-01-14· cited 1×