7 Va. App. 191 - Lett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Ybarra v. Illinois · 4 Va. App. 53 - Williams v. Commonwealth · United States v. Post
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before [an officer] places a hand on the person of a citizen in search of anything, he must have constitutionally adequate, reasonable grounds for doing so. In the case of the self-protective search for weapons, [the officer] must be able to point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous.””
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.