27 Va. App. 620 - Thompson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parke v. Raley · Rook v. Rook · 25 Va. App. 579 - Nicely v. Commonwealth · 12 Va. App. 661 - Cruz v. Commonwealth · Blunt v. Lentz
Most-quoted passages
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“[a]s a general principle, when a prior order of a court with jurisdiction to hear a matter is collaterally attacked, “the Commonwealth is entitled to a presumption of regularity which attends the prior [judgment] because ‘every act of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be presumed to have been rightly done, till the contrary appears.’ ” Nicely v. Commonwealth, 25 Va.App. 579, 584 , 490 S.E.2d 281, 283 (1997) (quoting Parke v. Raley, 506 U.S. 20, 30 , 113 S.Ct. 517 , 121 L.Ed.2d 391 (1992)) (other citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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