Morris v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that warrantless seizure of defendant’s clothing from private hospital room was improper
• holding that warrantless seizure of defendant's clothing from private hospital room was improper
• holding that, just as a search of a hotel room will be unlawful without a warrant, “the same is true of the room in [a] hospital which had been assigned to and paid for by the defendant”
• holding that, just as a search of a hotel room will be unlawful without a warrant, \the same is true of the room in [a] hospital which had been assigned to and paid for by the defendant\
• hospital personnel had no authority to consent to seizure of patient's effects from hospital room
• under facts of that case, hospital patient had reasonable expectation of privacy in his room similar to that of hotel guest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Earl Davis
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-08-16· cited 120×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-01-07· cited 100×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-10· cited 75×
• State v. Stott
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-04-04· cited 59×
• People v. Jordan
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1991-03-04· cited 39×
• Lugar v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-03-04· cited 25×
• State v. Rheaume
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-08-26· cited 22×
• One 1963 Chevrolet Pickup Truck v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1968-01-15· cited 20×
• United States v. Davis
  D. Maryland· 2009-09-15· cited 19×
• State v. Copeland
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-10-16· cited 13×
• State v. Cromb
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2008-06-11· cited 13×
• State v. Lopez
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-07-18· cited 12×
• Craft v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 11×
• Vass v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 10×
• State v. Butler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-31· cited 10×
• Matthews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-03· cited 6×
• People v. Rodgers
  New York County Courts· 1997-06-04· cited 1×
• Cromartie v. Billings
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-01-16
• Commonwealth v. Frazier
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1995-10-09
• Commonwealth v. Niblett
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-12-27

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Jeffers
  Supreme Court· 1951-11-26· cited 1,320×
• Lanza v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-04· cited 368×
• Riggan v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-02· cited 44×
• Riggan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 21×
• Atlantic Greyhound Corp. v. Shelton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 17×
• Richmond Oil Equipment Co. v. W. T. Holt, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-04-25· cited 3×