McCloud v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a search was not a strip search because “appellant’s clothing was not removed,” the “genital area was not exposed” and “officers made no visual inspection of appellant’s genitals” or “touched” the same, so no heightened test applied
• a strip search generally refers to an inspection of a naked individual, without any scrutiny of his body cavities, while a visual body-cavity search extends to a visual inspection of the anal and genital areas
• a strip search generally refers to an inspection of a naked individual, without any scrutiny of his body cavities, while a visual body-cavity search extends to a visual inspection of the anal and genital areas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Craddock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-05-13· cited 64×
• People v. Calvert
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-12-11· cited 45×
• Paulino v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-04· cited 44×
• Kidd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-07-02· cited 30×
• Shanta Orlando Hubbard, a/k/a Shawn Hubbard v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-03-12
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2025-09-11

Cites

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

• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 907×
• Commonwealth v. Grimstead
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-05· cited 429×
• Swain v. Spinney
  First Circuit· 1997-06-26· cited 222×
• Lisa Amaechi v. Matthew West, and Bernard R. Pfluger Town of Dumfries
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-01-09· cited 160×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-06-14· cited 154×
• Weber v. Dell
  Second Circuit· 1986-11-06· cited 133×
• Karen B. Masters v. Bobby G. Crouch
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-07-14· cited 130×
• Shears v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-05· cited 116×
• Dennis R. Cookish v. Commissioner Ronald Powell
  First Circuit· 1991-09-26· cited 86×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-01· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-15· cited 58×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-11· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Gilmore
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-06· cited 33×
• Robert Salinas v. Chief Harold Breier
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-12-22· cited 32×
• Debroux v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-05-02· cited 29×
• Mier v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 29×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-12-15· cited 24×