West v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that where the court found no intentional falsehoods or mistakes the “findings are not reversible unless plainly wrong or not supported by the evidence” (quoting Moats v. Commonwealth, 12 Va. App. 349, 355 (1991))
• judicial economy and efficiency promoted when trial court reconsidered and vacated suppression order after appeal noted
• no exclusionary rule for violations of state procedural statutes where no deprivation of the defendant’s constitutional rights occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ohree v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-13· cited 729×
• State v. Gutierrez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-10-27· cited 150×
• Tart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 46×
• Spivey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-14· cited 34×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-17· cited 18×
• Caccioppo v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-06-27· cited 11×
• Abraham v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-21· cited 9×
• Michael Alonzo Robinson, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-09-16· cited 2×
• Pueblo v. Alberti Santiago
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1995-04-24· cited 2×
• McGhee v. Zoning Appeals Board
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2001-06-25· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Fells
  Alexandria County Circuit Court· 1999-05-03· cited 1×
• Pueblo v. Ramos Diaz
  Tribunal De Apelaciones De Puerto Rico/Court of Appeals of Puerto Rico· 2001-06-18
• Commonwealth v. Durst
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1996-06-05
• Commonwealth v. Stepp
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1998-03-31
• Commonwealth v. Hoverstadt
  Southampton County Circuit Court· 2000-09-15
• Robert Harrison Flint v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-07-22

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Franks v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 8,679×
• Massachusetts v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 821×
• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• Penn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-12-10· cited 59×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-02· cited 48×
• Troncoso v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-07-09· cited 45×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-03-27· cited 41×
• Corey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-06-06· cited 33×
• Penn v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-09-18· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-04-03· cited 18×
• Carratt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-06-10· cited 8×
• Neustadter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-09· cited 8×
• Moats v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-23· cited 7×
• Neustadter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-12· cited 6×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-03-08· cited 5×