Wright v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an officer with probable cause for an arrest can search the suspect first and then arrest him
• applying more stringent Aguilar-Spinelli test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Perry v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 219×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-01-16· cited 142×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• Verez v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 94×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-09· cited 29×
• Hardy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-18· cited 24×
• Tipton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-05-17· cited 20×
• Camden v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-22· cited 19×
• Helms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-05-22· cited 10×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-03· cited 9×
• Jarrod O'Brian Farmer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-10-03· cited 7×
• Perry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-03· cited 5×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-03-09· cited 5×
• Stephenson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-19· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Folley
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 1990-07-20· cited 1×
• James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-08-21
• Roy Leeshun Williams v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Roberts
  Virginia Beach County Circuit Court· 1986-05-14
• Commonwealth v. Whitlock
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 1990-06-08

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Rawlings v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 2,425×
• Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-29· cited 1,845×
• Roaden v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-25· cited 483×
• Andrews v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 73×
• Bryson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 53×
• McKoy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-09-01· cited 19×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-10-08· cited 14×
• State v. Kaukani
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1978-04-13· cited 10×
• Fagan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-01-11· cited 5×