Hill v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing users to testify about the identity of drugs “after previous use has been demonstrated”
• allowing users to testify about the identity of drugs “after previous use has been demonstrated”
• listing “the physical appearance of the substance involved,” “evidence that the substance produced the expected effects,” and “evidence that the substance was called by the name of the [substance] by the defendant” among the types of circumstantial evidence that may be considered
• “Users and addicts, if they have gained familiarity or experience with a drug, may identify it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Myrick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-26· cited 49×
• Goldhamer v. Cohen
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-07· cited 37×
• Dunaway v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-15· cited 21×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 10×
• Floyd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-12-21· cited 10×
• Hinton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-08· cited 8×
• Hassan Bah v. William Barr
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-02-13· cited 8×
• Mackall v. Murray
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-03-25· cited 8×
• O’Dell v. Thompson, Warden, Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-02· cited 7×
• Blevins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-18· cited 2×
• Garrett v. Angelone
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1997-09-08· cited 2×
• Lenny Rock Kenner v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-12-03
• Priscilla Ann Holmes v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-11-22
• Commonwealth v. Hensley
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2003-01-28

Cites

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

• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Slayton v. Parrigan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-06-10· cited 378×
• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• People v. Winston
  California Supreme Court· 1956-02-07· cited 242×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-20· cited 166×
• Tafero v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 150×
• Commission v. Lysyj
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-13· cited 142×
• United States v. Chan Walker Zielie, Keith H. Gustafson, Thomas David Wilkerson, Robert Walter Govern, and Leon D. Mausser
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-06-25· cited 132×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 132×
• United States v. Dwayne Dolan
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-11-11· cited 129×
• Justus v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-10-16· cited 118×
• United States v. Kevin Sweeney, Daniel Hughes and Robert Ellington, and United States of America v. Daniel M. Hughes
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-09-15· cited 116×
• United States v. Paul F. Gregorio
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-05-31· cited 100×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-06-12· cited 87×
• Beaver v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 62×
• United States v. Patricia Atkins
  Eighth Circuit· 1973-02-21· cited 61×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 59×
• Walker v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-01-21· cited 55×