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
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“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“[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“). 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.