Harris v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing based on legally obtained goods and an unreliable informant as the only two factors in the totality of circumstances
• noting that warrantless searches and seizures are “presumptively unreasonable”
• reversing the denial of a defendant’s suppression motion where an officer claimed probable cause to search the defendant based on his experience that “certain people kept their narcotics” in film canisters
• finding no probable cause to search for drugs existed because the officer discovered a facially innocent film canister and he had no particularized knowledge that it contained drugs or that drugs are commonly secreted in such containers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-20· cited 155×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-01-16· cited 142×
• Unus v. Kane
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-05-06· cited 100×
• Harris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 98×
• State v. Demeter
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-06-05· cited 64×
• Cost v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-02-29· cited 62×
• Buck v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-02· cited 62×
• Abdul Lateef Salahuddin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-01-31· cited 60×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-10· cited 57×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-11· cited 56×
• Curley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-07-26· cited 45×
• Carson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-05-14· cited 42×
• Lovelace v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-11-05· cited 36×
• Bethea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-26· cited 31×
• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-10· cited 30×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-22· cited 23×
• Ruffin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-24· cited 23×
• Arnold v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 21×
• Peguese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-06· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Texas v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 3,147×
• Horton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 2,923×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• Arizona v. Hicks
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-03· cited 1,525×
• Smith v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-20· cited 207×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 85×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 61×
• United States v. George E. Lott and Edward Turner
  First Circuit· 1989-03-28· cited 59×
• Raymond T. Davis, Jr. v. United States of America, Kenneth M. Sams v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-09· cited 54×
• Delong v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 52×
• Schaum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 50×
• United States v. Tyrone Vincent Short
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-02-03· cited 40×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 14×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-30· cited 13×