16 Va. App. 873 - Stanley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 28 Va. App. 20 - Welshman v. Commonwealth (1998), 25 Va. App. 702 - Quinn v. Commonwealth (1997)
39 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Michigan v. Long · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Illinois v. Rodriguez
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer may not, simply by observing some item causing a 'bulge' in one's clothing, conduct a general frisk where the nature of the bulge or the surrounding cireumstances do not reasonably support the conclusion that ... the person is armed and dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.