Wright v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “‘Opening the door’ to the admission of evidence is a catchphrase often used to refer to the doctrine of ‘curative admissibility.’”
• “The proper method to preclude another party from entering . . . any form of inadmissible evidence is to make a contemporaneous objection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 45×
• Richard C. Wagoner, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-04-08· cited 18×
• Zook v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 16×
• Luck v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-06-15· cited 15×
• State of Washington v. Barclay Dylan Bennett
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2024-08-15· cited 2×
• State of Tennessee v. Alexander R. Vance and Damonta M. Meneese
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2020-02-25

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Blain v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 375×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-08-31· cited 69×
• United States v. Anthony Brown
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-02-14· cited 53×
• St. Clair County v. Bukacek
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1961-03-23· cited 42×
• Roy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-01-15· cited 28×
• Henderson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-10-21· cited 27×
• Stockard v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-08-08· cited 21×
• Corley v. Andrews
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1961-09-19· cited 18×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1988-03-31· cited 17×