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.

• holding that even if an out-of-court identification is found to be unduly suggestive, an in-court identification may still be made if such is shown to have an independent origin
• fact that officer wants witness to view a suspect carries with it the \necessarily unavoidable\ implication that the officer believes he is guilty
• “even if evidence of the out-of-court identification cannot be admitted, an in-court identification may still be made if the origin of that identification is independent of the inadmissible out-of-court identification procedure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-04-05· cited 67×
• Doan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-15· cited 33×
• Charity v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-04· cited 28×
• Curtis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-11· cited 27×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-11-15· cited 23×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-07· cited 20×
• Hopkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-18· cited 19×
• Henry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-10-10· cited 13×
• Yarborough v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-01-26· cited 11×
• David Smith v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-11-06· cited 10×
• Sanchez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-26· cited 10×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-01-08· cited 8×
• Black v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-11· cited 6×
• Hopkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-06· cited 4×
• State v. Gurule
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-07-02
• Dwayne Allen Ray, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-02-01
• Commonwealth v. Frye
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1998-05-20
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2001-04-27
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2001-04-16
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 2008-09-27

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Simmons v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 6,700×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Hoffa v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 2,107×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Iannelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-25· cited 1,423×
• Foster v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-01· cited 1,048×
• United States v. Ash
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 868×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• McCary v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 99×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 50×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 28×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 26×
• Cox v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 26×