Zimmerman v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that assault also includes the “unequivocal appearance” of an attempt to do physical injury to another
• “In this jurisdiction, we adhere to the common law definition of assault, there having been no statutory change to the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Towler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-12-20· cited 200×
• Viney v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-03-03· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-03-05· cited 99×
• Thomas v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-01-15· cited 87×
• Brown v. Spotsylvania Department of Social Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 66×
• Rose v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 63×
• Montague v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-11-05· cited 60×
• Carter v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-01-14· cited 45×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-11· cited 39×
• Correll v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-01-14· cited 31×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-03-30· cited 15×
• VELASQUEZ
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2010-07-01· cited 15×
• LANFERMAN
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2012-07-01· cited 13×
• Vickie Marrs Belew v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-05-07· cited 8×
• Christopher Y. Person v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-08-07· cited 8×
• Holloway v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-01-26· cited 2×
• Durham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2024-08-01
• Gengshu He v. Marco Rubio
  D.C. Circuit· 2026-06-23

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-01-11· cited 112×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-01-17· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 56×
• Bennett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-15· cited 45×