Wells 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 - 10 - “appellant’s failure to deny” the charge while on the stand “was probative of his guilt of the charged offense”
• considering evidence of drug distribution paraphernalia and of a large amount of cash
• evidence of drug distribution paraphernalia and of a large amount of cash

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Blackman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-05-24· cited 47×
• Dodd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-08-28· cited 21×
• Maye v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-30· cited 20×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-08-23· cited 13×
• Waller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-09-02· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Southampton County Circuit Court· 2000-10-10

Cites

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

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-15· cited 570×
• Drew v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-01-17· cited 235×
• Josephs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-27· cited 195×
• Burchette v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-15· cited 182×
• Fisher v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 162×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-01· cited 153×
• Ragland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-17· cited 133×
• Gillis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 109×
• Castaneda v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-01-17· cited 88×
• Andrews v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 73×
• LaPrade v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-10-09· cited 73×
• Farmer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-23· cited 52×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 48×
• Russell Wayne Carpenter v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1959-03-12· cited 45×
• Hetmeyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-10-04· cited 32×
• Maxey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-10· cited 17×