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.

• “A reduced sentence is not the responsibility of the judiciary but of the executive department, and argument as to what that department might do encroaches upon the separation of their functions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

55 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Eaton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-09-21· cited 194×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• Beck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-04-18· cited 170×
• Lewis Williams, Jr. v. Ralph Coyle, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-08-16· cited 151×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 128×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-01-30· cited 112×
• State v. Reeves
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-03-16· cited 103×
• Yeatts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-09-20· cited 92×
• MacKall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 89×
• Hanson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-24· cited 84×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 81×
• Novak v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 63×
• Yarbrough v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-09-17· cited 59×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 54×
• Swann v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-02-25· cited 53×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 52×
• Pritchett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 51×
• Terry Williams v. John Taylor, Warden, Sussex I State Prison, Terry Williams v. John Taylor, Warden, Sussex I State Prison
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-12-18· cited 50×
• Lilly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 47×

Cites

48 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Miller v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 1,743×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Edmonds v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 261×
• Stockton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-03-09· cited 259×
• Massie v. Firmstone
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 201×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 154×
• D. H. Roe and Stratoray Oil, Inc. v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-05-23· cited 129×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 125×
• Pope v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-09-04· cited 116×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 112×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 107×
• Poyner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-04-26· cited 106×
• Clozza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 98×
• United States v. De Angelo
  Third Circuit· 1943-10-28· cited 86×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 86×
• Eckhart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 81×