Wilson 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 presumption is not unconstitutional if, as applied in this case, there was a rational connection between the proved and presumed facts”
• where the defendants first raised the issue of a prior encounter with the game warden, they \will not be heard to complain when the Commonwealth pursued the matter further to complete the inquiry\
• where the defendants first raised the issue of a prior encounter with the game warden, they “will not be heard to complain when the Commonwealth pursued the matter further to complete the inquiry”
• “[O]ur general rule is to give rebuttable presumptions permissive or burden-of-production-shifting effect only.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Yap v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-04-24· cited 29×
• Kim v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-04-13· cited 19×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Padilla
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2006-01-04· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Pattarasok
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2006-01-05· cited 1×
• Lockhart v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-06-15
• State v. Carl Jerome Davis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-09-23
• Commonwealth v. Stump
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 2006-01-19
• Commonwealth v. Draper
  Martinsville County Circuit Court· 2006-09-25
• Durham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2024-08-01
• China Michael-Lee Coleman v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-02-10

Cites

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

• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Barnes v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 793×
• United States v. Gainey
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 481×
• Briley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 82×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 66×
• State v. Rogers
  Washington Supreme Court· 1974-03-21· cited 48×
• Stillwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 44×
• State v. Person
  Washington Supreme Court· 1960-05-26· cited 38×
• Yeatts v. Minton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-11-30· cited 27×
• Southern States Cooperative Inc. v. Doggett
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 25×
• Crenshaw v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-06-09· cited 20×
• Sharp v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-10-09· cited 19×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 16×
• Kayh v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 11×
• Doyle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-03-06· cited 8×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 8×
• Stephens v. Lindsey
  S.D. Georgia· 1969-09-05· cited 5×