Bass v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was no reasonable suspicion to stop motorist's vehicle where he made a legal U-turn about 500 feet from roadblock
• holding that there was no reasonable suspicion to stop motorist’s vehicle where he made a legal U-turn about 500 fee-; from roadblock
• recognizing that the standard of \reasonable suspicion\ requires a lesser showing than the standard of \probable cause\
• holding there was no reasonable suspicion to stop a motorist's vehicle where he made a legal U-turn about 500 feet from the roadblock
• holding there was no reasonable suspicion to stop a motorist’s vehicle where he made a legal U-turn about 500 feet from the roadblock
• stating that \[t]he reasons for which a driver may reverse direction other than to evade a traffic checkpoint are legion in number and are a matter of common knowledge and experience\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

44 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-04-23· cited 238×
• Perry v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-11-04· cited 219×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-03-20· cited 155×
• Slayton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-24· cited 143×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-01-16· cited 142×
• Van Andre Beasley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-17· cited 110×
• Reittinger v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-09· cited 104×
• Harris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 98×
• Crawford v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-01-13· cited 95×
• Barkley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-11· cited 81×
• Najee Finique Hairston v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-04-11· cited 81×
• Cost v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-02-29· cited 62×
• Com. v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-04-18· cited 54×
• Whitehead v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-09-18· cited 43×
• State v. Heapy
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2007-01-11· cited 35×
• Bauder v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-10-29· cited 32×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-02-25· cited 31×
• Wayne Antonio Bland, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-06-07· cited 31×
• Com. v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2011-04-21· cited 30×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• United States v. Sokolow
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 4,647×
• Illinois v. Wardlow
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-09-26· cited 127×
• Zimmerman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-01-15· cited 104×
• Leeth v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 62×
• Ewell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 56×
• Stroud v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-08-02· cited 36×
• Graybeal v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 35×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-21· cited 29×
• Reid v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-11-06· cited 25×