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.

• noting that a search, pursuant to impoundment of a vehicle and corresponding community caretaking functions, “must not be a pretextual surrogate for an improper investigatory motive”

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Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Haskins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-09-14· cited 351×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-20· cited 155×
• Ervin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-25· cited 147×
• Kyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-05-03· cited 113×
• Armstead v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-07-27· cited 92×
• Raheem Montaz Knight v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-12-18· cited 34×
• James Dean Cantrell v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-07-28· cited 34×
• Kromer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-14· cited 24×
• Parker Chad Ross v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-04-16· cited 17×
• Kyer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-08-17· cited 8×
• Ceon Maurice Fauntleroy v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-07-30· cited 6×
• Collins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-12-14· cited 6×
• Adrian Knight v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-04-07
• Commonwealth v. Lott
  Amherst County Circuit Court· 2010-06-02
• Commonwealth v. Glenn
  Petersburg County Circuit Court· 2016-03-07
• Ryan Douglas Roberts v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-09-17
• Shjon Michael Stamps v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-02-18
• Daquan Hinton v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-05-12

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• South Dakota v. Opperman
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-07-21· cited 959×
• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-05· cited 712×
• Archer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-10· cited 692×
• Sandoval v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-04· cited 495×
• United States v. Shareef
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-11-13· cited 325×
• Servis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 274×
• Drew v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-01-17· cited 235×
• Powers v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-06-15· cited 221×
• Walton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-02-27· cited 169×
• Iglesias v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 117×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 109×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 104×
• United States v. Morgan Dwight Brown
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-04-08· cited 71×
• Askew v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-03-18· cited 70×
• Womack v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-06-08· cited 62×
• Copeland v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-02-10· cited 57×