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
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“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“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“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.