9 Va. App. 11 - Commonwealth v. Holloway’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 12 Va. App. 1066 - Commonwealth v. Grimstead (1991), 14 Va. App. 487 - Hatcher v. Commonwealth (1992)
36 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 · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Sokolow · Kolender v. Lawson · Brown v. Texas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant’s failure to respond to the agent’s inquiry concerning ownership of the luggage need not be interpreted as abandonment. Having been advised by the agent that he was investigating for illegal drugs on board the train, the defendant, whose assertion of ownership may have been incriminating, chose to remain silent in the face of police questioning. He had a right to remain silent. Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 502 , 103 S.Ct. 1319, 1326 , 75 L.Ed.2d 229 (1983). The failure of other passengers in the vicinity to claim ownership is not evidence of the defendant’s abandonment of ownership nor is it evidence that the true owner had abandoned the luggage. The luggage was in a proper place for storage, and the owner may not have chosen to answer or been available when the agent inquired of passengers in the vicinity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Stanberry v. State“a reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity on the part of the defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Com.
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.