Nelson 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 the occupant of a hotel room did not - 6 - constructively possess drugs found in the room where drugs were not in plain view, no drugs were found on him, and evidence failed to show how long he had been in room
• defendant, present in hotel room where drugs found, did not constructively possess drugs because drugs not in plain view, no drugs found on defendant, and evidence failed to show how long defendant had been in room

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-23· cited 13×
• Peden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-02-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Nelson County Circuit Court· 2004-04-01

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Drew v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-01-17· cited 235×
• Josephs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-27· cited 195×
• Inge v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 170×
• Ritter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 142×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 125×
• Clodfelter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 104×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-06-16· cited 98×
• Castaneda v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-01-17· cited 88×
• Behrens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-09-16· cited 58×
• Hunter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-01-15· cited 56×
• Colbert v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-06-09· cited 56×
• Crisman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-06-13· cited 50×
• Archer v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 47×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-03-04· cited 44×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 31×
• The PEOPLE v. Pigrenet
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-11-30· cited 27×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-26· cited 19×
• Lowery v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-16· cited 13×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-11-15· cited 10×