Lawson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• informant’s tip, together with attempt by defendant to discard small yellow envelope which officer testified resembled “nickel bag of marijuana,” gave officer probable cause to search the vehicle
• a case very similar to the present case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-01-11· cited 89×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 49×
• Purdie v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-10· cited 27×
• Camden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Durst
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1991-04-30

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• People v. De Bour
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-06-15· cited 2,736×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 85×
• Raymond T. Davis, Jr. v. United States of America, Kenneth M. Sams v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-09· cited 54×
• Schaum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 50×
• McKoy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-09-01· cited 19×
• Oglesby v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 10×