Polston 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 a recent arrestee “whose cooperation with the authorities began only after his arrest” was not a disinterested “‘citizen’ informer”
• reasoning that prior reliable information given by an informant may be considered in establishing an informant’s credibility
• allowing an inference of reliability for citizen informers without additional supporting circumstances but requiring supporting circumstances for information from criminal informants
• addressing statements against penal interest and other factors lending credence to the tips of criminal informers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lebedun v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-07· cited 76×
• Polston v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-04-17· cited 50×
• Russell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-10-24· cited 29×
• McGuire v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 29×
• Lester v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-31· cited 29×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-23· cited 23×
• Reed v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-24· cited 22×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-02-01· cited 12×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-04-14· cited 10×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-03-09· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• United States v. Rabinowitz
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-20· cited 2,080×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• United States v. Gary Lynn Weaver
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-04-07· cited 268×
• United States v. Lauren Eric Wilhelm
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-04-03· cited 174×
• United States v. Bernice Malloy Miller
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-02-12· cited 130×
• McCary v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 99×
• United States v. Lafayette Reddrick
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-07-25· cited 85×
• Saunders v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-09-01· cited 55×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-02· cited 48×
• Corey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-06-06· cited 33×
• Miles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-09-10· cited 30×
• Miles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-10· cited 23×
• Tamburino v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-03-03· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Slater
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 10×
• McLaughlin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-09-20· cited 8×
• Latham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-04-13· cited 6×