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.

• holding that “the one month time lapse between when the items were discovered missing and when they were found in [the defendant’s possession] is sufficiently brief to be construed as recent possession”
• holding that stolen goods found in the possession of a defendant one month after the goods were discovered missing was “sufficiently brief to be construed as recent possession” under the petit larceny statute
• holding Miranda warnings unnecessary where information obtained as a result of conduct normally attendant to arrest and custody and noting \the total absence of any evidence that the questioning . . . was intended or designed to produce an incriminating response.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Emerson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 160×
• Timbers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-08-18· cited 117×
• Burton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-17· cited 57×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13· cited 47×
• Watts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-04-30· cited 39×
• Winston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-17· cited 39×
• Gates v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 22×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-01-21· cited 2×
• Gorum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-12-29· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Wease
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1998-06-15· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1989-10-13
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Campbell County Circuit Court· 1991-06-14

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• South Dakota v. Neville
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 1,275×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Hines v. J. E. Lavallee, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, Newyork
  Second Circuit· 1975-08-13· cited 120×
• Clodfelter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-11-23· cited 104×
• United States v. Homero Glen-Archila, Dudley Astor May-Mitchell
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-06-04· cited 74×
• Montgomery v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 58×
• Henderson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-04-28· cited 32×
• Castle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 24×
• Woodfin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 6×