9 Va. App. 139 - Murphy v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Bass v. Commonwealth (2000), 19 Va. App. 437 - Logan v. Commonwealth (1994)
2 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Sokolow · Berkemer v. McCarty
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a court reviews whether an officer had reasonable suspicion ... it must view the totality of the circumstances and view those facts objectively through the eyes of a reasonable police officer with the knowledge, training, and experience of the investigating officer.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] police officer may conduct an investigatory stop of a motor vehicle if he has at least `articulable and reasonable suspicion' that the operator is unlicensed, the vehicle is unregistered, or the vehicle or an occupant is otherwise subject to seizure for violating the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“behavior which independently raise[d] suspicion of criminal activity,”
3 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.