Collins 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 the fact finder “could have found” that the defendant had slipped as he “exited the car,” but it found instead that he “threw drugs under the vehicle,” and that finding is “binding” on appeal
• observing that cocaine is “something of significant value and not something that one is likely to have abandoned or carelessly left in the area there”
• noting that the trial court could “discount” the possibility of drugs being abandoned because “the cocaine was ‘something of significant value and not something that one is likely to have abandoned or carelessly left in the area there’”
• finding sufficient evidence to prove constructive possession where defendant \made a throwing motion under the vehicle with his right arm\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Lea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-27· cited 228×
• Aldridge v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-28· cited 78×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 41×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-21· cited 32×
• Travis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-23· cited 14×
• Singleton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-21· cited 9×
• Thomas Tyler Wright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-11· cited 8×
• Daniel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-23· cited 8×
• Norman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-06· cited 4×
• George Halcott Norman, III v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-11-04· cited 2×
• Hebden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-08-26· cited 2×
• Vanegas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-07· cited 1×
• Singleton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-22· cited 1×
• Washington v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08
• Stephen Lane Hebden v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-24
• Dean Anton Vitasek v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-01-13

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Inge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 170×
• Schneider v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 148×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 125×
• Behrens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-09-16· cited 58×
• Crews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-01-06· cited 51×
• Massie v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-11-13· cited 28×