12 Va. App. 227 - Sheard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · 3 Va. App. 612 - Holliday v. Commonwealth · 4 Va. App. 3 - Clark v. Commonwealth · Holz v. Commonwealth · 8 Va. App. 336 - Williams v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[a]ll that was required to be proven was that appellant, being duly under oath, willfully swore falsely to material facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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