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 exclusive possession of recently stolen goods “warrants the inference that he stole all of the property [for which the defendant is accused of taking] provided all the property was stolen at the same time” (emphasis added)
• chamber conference conducted during trial on evidentiary question not “part of the actual trial”
• chamber conference conducted during trial on evidentiary question not \part of the actual trial\
• defendant need not be present for “consideration of purely legal matters by the trial judge which are in fact and reality merely careful and prudent preparation for the resumption and conduct of the trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Quintana v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 114×
• Jesse Root v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1965-03-26· cited 87×
• United States v. Alphonso T. Johnson
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-09-04· cited 65×
• Graham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-07· cited 63×
• State v. Vance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-02-13· cited 54×
• Morris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 46×
• Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-01-26· cited 41×
• Henderson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-04-28· cited 32×
• State v. Etchell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-10-16· cited 19×
• Amado v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-12-07· cited 19×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-04-21· cited 17×
• Hampton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-03-13· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1969-12-10· cited 16×
• Fain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 13×
• United States v. Phillip M. Coggins
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-09-04· cited 11×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-06-16· cited 9×
• Perry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 7×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 7×
• Brittingham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-07-03· cited 5×
• Turner v. Williams
  E.D. Virginia· 1993-02-01· cited 5×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Noell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 54×
• Palmer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-11-12· cited 46×
• Drinkard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-01-17· cited 33×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-06-15· cited 29×
• Rogers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-10-09· cited 27×
• Wilborne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-12-06· cited 23×
• Pierce v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 21×
• McLean v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-06-09· cited 17×
• Seay v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 13×
• Langford v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-06-12· cited 12×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-01-15· cited 11×
• Clarke v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-11-17· cited 11×
• Fetters v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 6×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-01-17· cited 4×
• Steel v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-09-17· cited 4×