Wilson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that the court need not decide whether the officer’s conduct in administering field sobriety tests violated the Fourth Amendment; the accused refused to submit to the tests, so there was no evidence that resulted from the officer’s conduct to suppress
• mere fact that officer is in his uniform does not mean officer may not undertake a valid citizen’s arrest
• defendant conceded valid grounds for citizen’s arrest where defendant was weaving and crossing double line and nearly hit off-duty officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Winston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-27· cited 39×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-15· cited 21×
• Roulhac v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-06-12· cited 14×
• United States v. Atwell
  D. Maryland· 2007-01-05· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Borek
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-08-04· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-11-10
• Commonwealth v. Stickle
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 2007-02-13

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• State v. Phoenix
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-10· cited 50×
• State Ex Rel. State v. Gustke
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-05-21· cited 44×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 18×