14 Va. App. 487 - Hatcher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
53
cited by 53 later decisions
2
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
53 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Rakas v. Illinois · Berkemer v. McCarty · Michigan v. Long
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] general suspicion of some criminal activity is enough, as long as the officer can, based on the circumstances before him at the time, articulate a reasonable basis for his suspicion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the time the question was posed, appellant's detention had not yet risen to the level of a formal arrest or its functional equivalent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rehn
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.