12 Va. App. 545 - Keffer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2015
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Holz v. Commonwealth · Mendez v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he purpose of requiring corroborating evidence is “to confirm the single witness’ testimony and to induce the belief of it.” ... [Although the corroborating evidence “must be of a strong character, and not merely corroborative in slight particulars,” it need not be equal in weight to the testimony of a second witness. Rather [it] must confirm the single witness’ testimony in a manner strong enough “to turn the scale and overcome the oath of the [defendant] and the legal presumption of his innocence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f any person to whom an oath is lawfully administered on any occasion willfully swear falsely on such occasion touching any Material matter or thing, . . . he shall be guilty of perjury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[W]hen there is witness against witness, oath against oath, there must be other evidence to satisfy the mind.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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