29 Va. App. 724 - Reittinger v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
August 2008
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Adams v. Williams
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a lawful encounter based on reasonable suspicion or probable cause flows immediately into a consensual encounter, an officer remains lawfully in the presence of the individual previously detained for purposes of conducting a pat-down search[, and, tjherefore, the officer may frisk the individual for weapons if he develops a reasonable suspicion that the individual may be armed and dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.