Bunch v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting the plain smell doctrine and concluding that an officer who smells marijuana has probable cause to seize and search
• finding the odor of marijuana emanating from a vehicle sufficient to justify a search
• upholding a search under the Fourth Amendment based on the odor of marijuana
• first quoting Cost v. Commonwealth, 275 Va. 246, 251 (2008); and then quoting Malbrough v. Commonwealth, 275 Va. 163, 168 (2008)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2015-09-17
• Michael Angelo Street v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-08-02
• Renee Michelle Parady v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-07-05
• Tecquin Darkeem Moore, s/k/a Tecquin Dakeem Moore v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-08-26
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2025-09-11

Cites

21 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×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Illinois v. Caballes
  Supreme Court· 2005-01-24· cited 2,007×
• Edwards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-12-09· cited 625×
• State v. Moore
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-09-20· cited 370×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-12-13· cited 166×
• United States v. Deunte L. Humphries
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-06-17· cited 165×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Glenn v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-01-11· cited 140×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-01· cited 130×
• Raab v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-30· cited 82×
• United States v. Haynie
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-12-18· cited 63×
• Cost v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-02-29· cited 62×
• Glenn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-20· cited 53×
• Cherry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-23· cited 49×
• Blackman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-05-24· cited 47×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-10-15· cited 41×
• State v. Vanderveer
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1995-11-27· cited 30×
• State v. T.T.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-02-28· cited 23×
• State v. Hernandez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-02-11· cited 18×