Helms v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction where defendant was located outside residence for which warrant was being executed and did not act suspicious; moreover, there was no evidence that searching police officer had seen such containers used to conceal drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Neal v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-28· cited 58×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-11· cited 56×
• Weathers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-06-20· cited 25×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-22· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Frazier
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1995-10-09
• Commonwealth v. Lincoln
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-11-13
• Commonwealth v. Curry
  Warren County Circuit Court· 1992-01-06

Cites

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

• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• Arkansas v. Sanders
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-20· cited 1,484×
• United States v. Jeffers
  Supreme Court· 1951-11-26· cited 1,320×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 919×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Fore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 284×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• DePriest v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-08-04· cited 149×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 49×
• People v. Thurman
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-04-14· cited 46×
• Thims v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 38×
• Hogan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-09-01· cited 34×
• People v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-01-17· cited 26×
• Matthews v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 17×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-30· cited 13×