Carson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officer may seize item if he is in lawful position to see item and it is immediately apparent that item is evidence of crime
• upholding, as not a seizure, officer’s approach of appellant’s car while it was stopped at toll booth
• cut-off straw recognized as device used for “ingest[ing] cocaine through the[] nose[]” provided probable cause for seizure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clarke v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-04-25· cited 56×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-08-09· cited 29×
• Arnold v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 21×
• Camden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ramey
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-11-29· cited 19×
• Jones v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-06-04· cited 8×
• Grandison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-06-06· cited 4×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-10-19· cited 4×
• Bristol v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-01-31· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Simms
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1997-11-17
• Dana Mark Camann, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-01-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-06-09· cited 124×
• Carson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 42×
• Carson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-12· cited 29×