Brown v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• involving inference of unlikelihood of abandonment of item of value such as drugs
• an informant's tip of illegal drug activity and a trained canine's alert to the presence of narcotics found to be sufficient to establish probable cause
• defendant constructively possessed cocaine found in the zippered bag on the back floorboard of the car he had driven but that was registered to another person
• “The Commonwealth is not required to prove that there is no possibility that someone else may have planted, discarded, abandoned or placed the drugs” in the place where they are found.
• large amount of packaged drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-05· cited 712×
• Archer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-10· cited 692×
• Ervin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 147×
• Glasco v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-17· cited 103×
• Armstead v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-07-27· cited 92×
• State v. Scheetz
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-12-05· cited 65×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-07-30· cited 61×
• Steve Whitt v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 43×
• Hargraves v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-01-15· cited 43×
• Watts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-11-02· cited 37×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-03-21· cited 36×
• Spivey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-14· cited 34×
• Bunch v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 33×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-25· cited 32×
• Langston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-08· cited 31×
• Pemberton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 30×
• Jean-Laurent v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-12-12· cited 29×
• Byers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-11-20· cited 26×
• Kromer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-14· cited 24×
• Dodd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-08-28· cited 21×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• United States v. Place
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 3,374×
• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• Michigan v. Summers
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 2,036×
• Henry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-11-23· cited 1,968×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Fore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 284×
• United States v. Wallace Hooks
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-01-02· cited 245×
• Drew v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-01-17· cited 235×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-01-14· cited 155×
• Ritter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 142×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 125×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• United States v. Bennett Goldstein and James Edward Kern
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-01-26· cited 95×
• Castaneda v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-01-17· cited 88×
• United States v. Benny Carl Lovell
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-07-01· cited 87×