Hudson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “citizen’s arrests,” which permit private citizens to “arrest . . . private person[s],” are permissible under Virginia law under particular circumstances
• finding appellant's Fourth Amendment argument \barred from consideration on appeal under Rule 5:25\ because appellant \present[ed] this argument for the first time on appeal\
• finding a breach of the peace where the defendant’s vehicle was swerving across lanes of traffic and almost rear-ended the off-duty officer
• finding appellant’s Fourth Amendment argument “barred from consideration on appeal under Rule 5:25” because appellant “present[ed] this argument for the first time on appeal”
• finding it “absurd ... that a law enforcement officer, solely because he happens to be in uniform and in a police car” could not pull someone over for driving erratically
• law enforcement officer is prohibited from using indicia of authority to collect evidence that a private citizen would be unable to gather

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-02-02· cited 123×
• United States v. Day
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-08· cited 46×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-03-01· cited 23×
• Sawyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-05-18· cited 11×
• State v. Chavez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2004-09-14· cited 11×
• United States v. Atwell
  D. Maryland· 2007-01-05· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Borek
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-08-04· cited 2×
• State of Arizona v. Max Valencia Chavez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2004-09-14
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-11-10
• Blake Darvin Hughes, a/k/a Blake Darin Hughes v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-05-12

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• United States v. Jacobsen
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-02· cited 3,218×
• State v. Phoenix
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-10· cited 50×
• State Ex Rel. State v. Gustke
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-05-21· cited 44×
• City of Corvallis v. Carlile
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1882-03-15· cited 33×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-06-16· cited 21×
• Tharp v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-10-10· cited 18×
• Buck v. Jordan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-11-06· cited 17×
• Lamay v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-13· cited 14×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-20· cited 11×