McCoy v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “While the legislature had seen fit to make distribution of cocaine as an accom modation punishable with less severity than distribution for profit, the gravamen of the offense is possession of the drug with intent to distribute it to another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-01· cited 439×
• Daung Sam v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 35×
• Clifton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-26· cited 27×
• Shavin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-09· cited 22×
• State v. Nelson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-07-22· cited 11×
• Hackney v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-12-09· cited 7×
• Shabazz v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-04-21· cited 3×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-16· cited 3×
• United States v. Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-24
• Stephen James Kilpatrick v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-05-04
• Ronald Dean Northcraft v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-09-26

Cites

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

• Sorrells v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-19· cited 1,793×
• Mathews v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 1,244×
• Stevenson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1896-04-13· cited 349×
• Schneider v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 148×
• Butts v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1921-05-04· cited 130×
• United States v. Harrison A. Williams, Jr. And Alexander Feinberg
  Second Circuit· 1983-04-05· cited 113×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 100×
• United States v. Neil Patrick Coady
  First Circuit· 1987-01-13· cited 99×
• United States v. Robert N. Devore, M.D.
  Fourth Circuit· 1970-03-18· cited 87×
• United States v. Margarita Marie Davis Velasquez, United States of America v. Fernando Arango Gonzalez
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-10-01· cited 42×
• Keener v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-16· cited 30×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 29×
• Huffman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 27×
• Falden v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-01-14· cited 27×
• United States v. Cruz Hererra Rodrigues
  First Circuit· 1970-10-30· cited 24×
• Cogdill v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 22×
• United States v. Paul Ewbank, AKA \Pablo\
  Ninth Circuit· 1973-10-03· cited 15×
• Neighbors v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-06-11· cited 15×
• Swift v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-10-14· cited 13×
• People v. Irma Perry
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1977-04-19· cited 12×