Sullivan v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “And it is immaterial that the officer advised [defendant] he was being arrested for disorderly conduct, instead of for obstructing an officer in the discharge of his duties.”
• credit card found on defendant three months later sufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sandoval v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-04· cited 495×
• Bright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-05-19· cited 153×
• Hart v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 62×
• Montgomery v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 58×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 41×
• Langston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-09-08· cited 31×
• Darnell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-16· cited 29×
• Fierst v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 28×
• Cheatham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 20×
• Timothy Lawrence Doscoli v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-06-21· cited 19×
• Lunsford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-10-13· cited 13×
• Bazemore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-12-01· cited 13×
• Cannady v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-03-09· cited 11×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-04-23· cited 9×
• Griffith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-06-12· cited 3×
• Grove Press, Inc. v. Evans
  E.D. Virginia· 1970-03-12· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Richmond County Circuit Court· 1997-01-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fout v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-06-14· cited 53×
• Drinkard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-01-17· cited 33×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-11-28· cited 29×
• Hawley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-10-11· cited 29×
• Wilborne v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-12-06· cited 23×