4 Va. App. 53 - Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
189 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 4 Va. App. 577 - DePriest v. Commonwealth (1987), 19 Va. App. 437 - Logan v. Commonwealth (1994)
189 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · United States v. Cortez · 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circumstances we may consider include “the ‘characteristics of the area’ where the stop occurs, the time of the stop, whether late at night or not, as well as any suspicious conduct of the person accosted such as an obvious attempt to avoid officers or any nervous conduct on the discovery of their presence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] magistrate may draw reasonable inferences from the material supplied to him and ... his determination of probable cause `should be paid great deference by reviewing courts.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although suspicion of narcotics possession and distribution is not universally recognized as a circumstance which, standing alone, gives rise to an inference of dangerousness, we believe that the better view is that it does. The Supreme Court implied as much in Summers when it stated: “[T]he execution of a warrant to search for narcotics is the kind of transaction that may give rise to sudden violence or frantic efforts to conceal or destroy evidence.””
2 later decisions 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.