Bethea v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• criticizing this Court’s Mimms-based reasoning, but approving order to passenger to get out of the vehicle because it was based on reasonable, articulable suspicion
• criticizing this Court's Mimms -based reasoning, but approving order to passenger to get out of the vehicle because it was based on reasonable, articulable suspicion
• discussing state’s “legitimate and weighty” interest in the protection of police officers

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-06-14· cited 162×
• Welshman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 123×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-01-26· cited 107×
• Hamlin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-09-26· cited 31×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-08-30· cited 24×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-20· cited 18×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 13×
• Reittinger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-25· cited 11×
• Reittinger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 8×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-06-08· cited 8×
• Pryor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-21· cited 4×
• Timothy M. Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-15· cited 3×
• Welshman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Suffolk County Circuit Court· 2000-12-11

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Foley v. Connelie
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-22· cited 251×
• United States v. Thomas H. Taylor, Jr., A/K/A Seifullah Rahman, United States of America v. Vernon A. Collins, A/K/A Bey Brother
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-09-13· cited 95×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• State v. Landry
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1991-10-21· cited 64×
• State v. Becker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-07-18· cited 37×
• Bethea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-26· cited 31×
• Bethea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-16· cited 9×