Scott v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “the Commonwealth need only exclude reasonable hypotheses of innocence that flow from the evidence, not those that spring from the imagination of the defendant” (quoting Hamilton v. Commonwealth, 16 Va. App. 751, 755 (1993))
• “[F]irearm[s are] a recognized tool of the drug trade.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ervin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 147×
• Tizon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-04-03· cited 106×
• Damon Phineas Jordan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-08-28· cited 2×
• Kionne L. Pulley s/k/a Kionne Lydell Pulley
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-12-28

Cites

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

• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Bolden v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-01-11· cited 376×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Servis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 274×
• Hamilton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-20· cited 264×
• Bridgeman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-12-16· cited 239×
• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• Welshman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 123×
• Glasco v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-17· cited 103×
• Haskins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-12-07· cited 96×
• Glasco v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-02-26· cited 72×
• Askew v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-18· cited 70×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-04-10· cited 52×
• Stanley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 52×
• Shackleford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-28· cited 51×
• Ferguson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 38×
• Langston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-08· cited 31×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-24· cited 26×