Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2004
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parsons v. Commonwealth · Mazer v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Town of LaCrosse · Pinn v. Commonwealth · Holober v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]e have repeatedly held that in the trial of a criminal case it is of great importance that the court leave to the jury, exclusively, the consideration of the facts. [Indeed,] [i]n Parsons v. Commonwealth, 154 Va. 832 , 152 S.E. 547 [(1930)], it was said: “Trial judges in Virginia do not sit merely to keep order. They must do whatever seems to be necessary to mete out evenhanded justice both to the Commonwealth and to the accused, and they should with care abstain from conduct which tends to indicate to the jury any opinion upon those facts, which it is their, and not his, duty to pass upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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