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← 25 Va. App. 277 - Moore v. Commonwealth

25 Va. App. 277 - Moore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
August 2003
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Maryland v. Wilson

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Terry recognized the reasonableness of a minimal intrusion on personal privacy to insure the safety of an officer investigating, in a public place, a reasonable suspicion of lawbreaking. Other authorities have recognized the reasonableness of such intrusions to insure the safety of officers performing their duties under other circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]hen balanced against the driver's minimal privacy interests under these circumstances, we can only conclude that the driver of a motor vehicle may be subjected to a brief pat down search for weapons where the detaining officer has a lawful reason to detain said driver in the patrol car”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “). A determination as to the reasonableness of a particular police procedure depends”
    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.