33 Va. App. 704 - Christian v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
November 2010
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Circumstances we have recognized as relevant ... include characteristics of the area surrounding the stop, the time of the stop, the specific conduct of the suspect individual, the character of the offense under suspicion, and the unique perspective of a police officer trained and experienced in the detection of crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The principle is well established in Virginia that a relatively small quantity of cocaine warrants the inference that an accused possessed it for personal use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.