Glover 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 trial court as fact finder did not err in assessing the credibility of the witnesses and inferring from their testimony that the defendant knew there was a handgun in a vehicle he had borrowed
• finding that where the defendant challenged the sufficiency of the evidence showing knowledge of a handgun in a borrowed vehicle, the court may judge the credibility of witnesses and based on their testimony infer that the defendant knew of the presence of the gun
• finding that where the defendant challenged the sufficiency of the evidence as to his knowledge of a handgun in a borrowed vehicle, the court may judge the credibility of witnesses and based on their testimony infer that the defendant knew of the presence of the gun
• upholding the search of a car’s passenger compartment under Long where the officer, believing the suspect might be armed, observed him “with his . . . hand in a . . . gym bag” and “removing his hand from the gym bag in a deliberate manner”
• despite defendant’s offer to stipulate, permitting Commonwealth to prove prior convictions to support conviction under recidivist statute
• same, where the defendant was “sweating heavily” and “appeared nervous and preoccupied”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• State v. Nichols
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-12-15· cited 60×
• Hunter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-16· cited 57×
• Brooks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-08· cited 50×
• Woolridge v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 41×
• Pittman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-07· cited 37×
• Glover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 35×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-15· cited 32×
• Essex v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-05· cited 32×
• Farmer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-10· cited 31×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-09· cited 26×
• Donte Lavell Brooks v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 14×
• Pierson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-04-06· cited 13×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-19· cited 11×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-09-19· cited 11×
• Brooks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-03-26· cited 10×
• Colclasure v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-17· cited 8×
• State v. Hambrick
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2003-08-20· cited 8×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-08· cited 8×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-02-07· cited 7×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 61×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-10-08· cited 42×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 41×
• United States v. Mario Rainone and Rocco Circelli
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-11-09· cited 29×
• United States v. Herbert G. Powless
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-01-04· cited 26×
• Starks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 22×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-11-12· cited 14×