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← 37 Va. App. 421 - Davis v. Commonwealth

37 Va. App. 421 - Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

34 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Mendenhall · Mincey v. Arizona · Bumper v. North Carolina

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.

  1. “when a police officer confronts a person and informs the individual that he or she has been specifically identified as a suspect in a particular crime which the officer is investigating, that fact is significant among the “totality of the circumstances” to determine whether a reasonable person would feel free to leave.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When confronted with an accusation from police, such as, 'we know you are selling drugs from this location, let us search you,' no reasonable person would feel free to leave.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “flowed one from the other with no discernable break in the chain of causation.”
    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.