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.

• holding trial court was without jurisdiction to amend the defendant’s sentence when it did so in the course of amending the record on appeal
• holding the accused’s confession of attempted rape was corroborated by proof the decedent’s underpants had been removed and were found at the crime scene”
• affirming attempted rape conviction when, upon exiting her vehicle, the victim was accosted by the gun-wielding defendant who instructed her to remove her clothes so that he could “have sex” with her in the woods, but she took off running instead
• prospective juror’s equivocal answers regarding imposition of death penalty gave rise to racially neutral reason for peremptory strike

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dwayne Allen Wright v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-07-16· cited 202×
• Buck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 118×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 91×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-03-01· cited 86×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-10-31· cited 72×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 62×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 54×
• Swann v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-02-25· cited 53×
• Ramdass v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-11-05· cited 50×
• Steve Edward Roach v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-04· cited 46×
• Mickens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 39×
• Ramdass v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-08-03· cited 38×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 36×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-23· cited 35×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-25· cited 26×
• Barksdale v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-14· cited 25×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-15· cited 20×
• Sanders v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-06-09· cited 19×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 16×
• Rodriquez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-04· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Miller v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 1,743×
• Mu'Min v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 804×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-10-12· cited 256×
• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• Eaton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-09-21· cited 194×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• O'Dell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 176×
• Buchanan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 139×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 132×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 131×
• Spencer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 123×
• Woodfin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 108×
• Clozza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-09-07· cited 98×
• Mueller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 92×