Ward v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “Our cases recognize that drugs are a commodity of significant value, unlikely to be abandoned or carelessly left in an area.”
• “Our cases recognize that drugs are a commodity of significant value, unlikely to be abandoned or carelessly left in an area.”
• “Our cases recognize that drugs are a commodity of significant value, unlikely to be abandoned or carelessly left in an area.”
• “Our cases recognize that drugs are a commodity of significant value, unlikely to be abandoned or carelessly left in an area.”
• “Our cases recognize that drugs are a commodity of significant value, unlikely to be abandoned or carelessly left in an area.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ervin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 147×
• Ward v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-01-12· cited 42×
• Dodd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-08-28· cited 21×
• Bly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-09-15· cited 9×
• Rudolph David Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-09-13· cited 9×
• Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-02-23
• George Juan Walker v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-02-06
• Commonwealth v. Garrick
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2024-05-09

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-29· cited 1,845×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 907×
• Massachusetts v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 821×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Commonwealth v. Grimstead
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-05· cited 429×
• Coleman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 400×
• Long v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-05-02· cited 329×
• 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×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• United States v. Gendron
  First Circuit· 1994-03-02· cited 188×
• United States v. Garcia, Appeal of Jose A. Figueroa-Rivera, Gabriel Grant, Celina Wilson-Grant
  Second Circuit· 1989-08-15· cited 170×
• DePriest v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-08-04· cited 149×
• United States v. Steven Ricciardelli
  First Circuit· 1993-06-22· cited 146×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-01· cited 130×