Jones v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that flight from the scene of a crime may be considered in the context of other facts as evidence tending to show a defendant’s consciousness of guilt
• recognizing that flight from the scene of a crime may be considered in the context of other facts as evidence tending to show a defendant’s consciousness of guilt
• noting that a driver may reasonably refuse field sobriety tests due to “lack [of] physical dexterity” or a “reluctan[ce] to submit to subjective assessments by a police officer”
• noting a person may refuse a field sobriety test because the “person may be tired, may lack physical dexterity, [or] may have a limited ability to speak the English language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Timothy Kenneth Bartley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-06-20· cited 178×
• McGhee v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 172×
• Anthony Wade Ragland v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-03-28· cited 97×
• Curley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-07-26· cited 45×
• Burton v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-04-21· cited 43×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-04-15· cited 41×
• Donte Devan Mitchell v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-03· cited 17×
• McCormick v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-21· cited 5×
• State of Tennessee v. Lindsey A. Ochab
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2016-10-26
• Jeffrey Scott Haas v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-10-29
• Lambert v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-04-09
• Jason Park v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2022-05-03
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Staunton County Circuit Court· 2012-04-09
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 2014-06-18
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2015-09-16
• Commonwealth v. Winstead
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2015-09-21
• Dana Mark Camann, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-01-16
• George Juan Walker v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-02-06
• Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. v. Ephesus Richmond Seventh-Day Adventist Church, etc.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-04-08
• John Arthur Livesay v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-05-27

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michigan v. DeFillippo
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 1,685×
• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-06· cited 153×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-12-04· cited 116×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 97×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 85×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 85×
• Owens v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-09-03· cited 49×
• Emmett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-09-13· cited 47×
• Dixon v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 43×
• Turman v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 40×
• Baughan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-04-26· cited 38×
• Buhrman v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-04-18· cited 32×
• Artis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 17×
• McMillan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-11-22· cited 16×
• Edmondson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-09-16· cited 10×