Copeland 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 5A:18 barred the defendant’s sufficiency argument on an element of the offense when he failed to challenge that element at trial
• finding that the defendant’s furtive movements along with the presence of cocaine in plain view and in proximity to the defendant supported the reasonable inference he was aware of the character and nature of the substance and its existence in the car
• search may occur “either before or after” an arrest so long as “the search is contemporaneous with the arrest” (quoting Italiano v. Commonwealth, 214 Va. 334, 336 (1973))
• “Furtive gestures alone have been held insufficient to establish probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-25· cited 362×
• Alfred Banks, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-02-14· cited 351×
• Flanagan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-08-30· cited 217×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-02-15· cited 97×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-04-06· cited 50×
• Prince Adjei v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-09-23· cited 31×
• Wheeler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-01-11· cited 17×
• McMillan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-12-22· cited 15×
• Victoria Elizabeth Dufresne v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-10-18· cited 9×
• McDowell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-11-23· cited 6×
• Cost v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-12-28· cited 3×
• Adrian Knight v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-07
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2004-02-27
• Renee Michelle Parady v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-07-05

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Nix v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,080×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Maryland v. Pringle
  Supreme Court· 2003-12-15· cited 1,610×
• Arizona v. Hicks
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-03· cited 1,525×
• Redman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-15· cited 579×
• Commonwealth v. Grimstead
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-05· cited 429×
• Lee v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 337×
• People v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-12-31· cited 307×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 284×
• Mounce v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-07· cited 245×
• Drew v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-01-17· cited 235×
• Powers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 221×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-21· cited 176×
• Weidman v. Babcock
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-01-11· cited 171×