Woodson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 28 Va. App. 20 - Welshman v. Commonwealth (1998), 60 Va. App. 381 - Van Andre Beasley v. Commonwealth of Virginia (2012)
34 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · California v. Hodari D. · United States v. Bailey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had he attempted to leave the vehicle, [the officer] would have seized him by physical force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable person would have assumed under the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ordered him to place his hands where [he] could see them,”
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.