Williams v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• arrest on unrelated charge; inmate's effects inventoried and stored in locked storage room; officer obtained inmate's boots and had tread compared to prints found at murder scene; no reasonable expectation of privacy
• arrest on unrelated charge; inmate’s effects inventoried and stored in locked storage room; officer obtained inmate’s boots and had tread compared to prints found at murder scene; no reasonable expectation of privacy
• seizure and testing of defendant’s boots in murder case was proper as defendant had no expectation of privacy which society would recognize as reasonable in items that had been lawfully seized and inventoried at time of his arrest and incarceration on unrelated charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• State v. Cheatam
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-12-11· cited 160×
• United States v. Earl Davis
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-08-16· cited 120×
• Cole v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-11-16· cited 61×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2012-04-17· cited 40×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-13· cited 30×
• United States v. Davis
  D. Maryland· 2009-09-15· cited 19×
• State v. Morris
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-05-06· cited 3×
• State of Tennessee v. Harold Morris
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-05-06
• State of Tennessee v. Ritika Arora
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2024-12-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Oliver v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,923×
• United States v. Edwards
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 917×
• Stamper v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-08-30· cited 380×
• Derr v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 214×
• United States v. Ralph F. Deleo
  First Circuit· 1970-04-20· cited 199×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• United States v. Richard Albert Jenkins
  Second Circuit· 1974-04-05· cited 168×
• United States v. Harvey R. Johnson
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-06-24· cited 159×
• United States v. Lynette Burnette, United States of America v. Theresa Burnette, United States of America v. Michael Curtis Burnette
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-02-10· cited 146×
• United States v. Michael Roybal Oaxaca, United States of America v. Steven Edward Delman
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-02-13· cited 84×
• Phan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-11-05· cited 40×
• United States v. Richard Clay Thompson
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-02-02· cited 31×
• United States v. Arzell Phillips, Jr., United States of America v. Dannie Mitchell Walker
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-10-24· cited 29×
• United States v. Edward Larry Turner
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-06-30· cited 26×
• Contreras v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-01-27· cited 25×
• State v. Copridge
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-05-31· cited 21×
• State v. Wheeler
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1986-12-05· cited 12×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-16· cited 1×