Saunders v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• a magistrate may deem eyewitness information found in a search warrant’s affidavit reliable because the affidavit is based on firsthand knowledge
• a magistrate may infer the reliability of a search warrant affidavit, which discloses information from an eyewitness to the fact related, because the affidavit is based on firsthand knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• Schmitt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-08· cited 109×
• Waye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 95×
• Joyce v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-10· cited 60×
• Albert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-19· cited 57×
• Com. v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-06-06· cited 40×
• Garza v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 40×
• Wise v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 38×
• Stotler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-07-01· cited 33×
• Kitze v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-09-17· cited 29×
• Polston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-27· cited 28×
• State v. Gomes
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-01-08· cited 23×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-16· cited 22×
• Hodges v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-07· cited 20×
• Maye v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-30· cited 20×
• Lowe v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-09-17· cited 19×
• Martinez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-08-14· cited 18×
• Hamer v. School Board of the City of Chesapeake
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 18×
• Maxey v. Hubble
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-11-10· cited 17×
• David Gregory Landeck v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-03-13· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 4,796×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• United States v. Martin F. Burke
  Second Circuit· 1975-05-15· cited 262×
• United States v. Fred Louis Bell and Charles Lavern Beasley
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-04-21· cited 155×
• United States v. David Ross Miley
  Second Circuit· 1975-03-19· cited 125×
• George McCreary v. Maurice Sigler
  Eighth Circuit· 1969-03-07· cited 116×
• People v. Glaubman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-06-01· cited 81×
• United States v. Richard Floyd McCoy Jr.
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-05-07· cited 63×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-01-14· cited 61×
• United States v. Ernest Eugene Mahler
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-07-09· cited 60×
• United States v. Herman P. Unger, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-01-02· cited 58×
• Manley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-09-04· cited 57×
• United States v. Andrew J. Welebir
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-06-06· cited 53×
• Schaum v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 50×
• Huff v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-03-05· cited 48×