Hall 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 phrase, “about his person,” simply means close to the carrier
• a private citizen may make an arrest where a felony has actually been committed and he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person arrested was the person who committed the felony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 18×
• Leith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-01· cited 18×
• State of West Virginia v. Joseph Frederick Horn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-09-26· cited 12×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-05-02· cited 3×
• Hall v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-06-12
• (1996)
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 1996-01-17
• Myers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2021-05-13
• Commonwealth v. Merryman
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1991-03-20
• Commonwealth v. Starkey
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1991-12-04

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Schaaf v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-10-05· cited 32×
• Tharp v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 18×
• Moore v. Oliver
  W.D. Virginia· 1972-09-13· cited 8×