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 that Simmons did not apply even though jury predicated death sentence on future dangerousness because appellant would have been eligible for parole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Dwayne Allen Wright v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-07-16· cited 202×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 91×
• Roach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1996-03-01· cited 86×
• Joseph v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 68×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 62×
• Yarbrough v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-09-17· cited 59×
• Steve Edward Roach v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-04· cited 46×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-11-04· cited 39×
• Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-03-03· cited 14×
• Roach v. Angelone
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-04

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-02-26· cited 54×
• Wright v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-20· cited 4×