18 Va. App. 229 - Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2015
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Hayes v. Florida · United States v. Rodgers · 2 Va. App. 639 - Walls v. Commonwealth · 13 Va. App. 399 - Penn v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Commonwealth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jones’s mere presence with another man on the premises at four o’clock in the afternoon near an automobile parked on a street by an apartment complex was insufficient to establish probable cause to believe that Jones was neither a resident of the apartment complex nor legitimately upon the premises at the invitation of a resident. The officer’s observation permitted only a bare suspicion. Indeed, the officer’s assertion that Jones and the other man were “hanging out” did not add sufficient information to raise his suspicion of trespassing to probable cause.”
3 later decisions 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.