Dickerson 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 an officer did not seize an individual simply by asking whether he “smoked marijuana” or had any illegal drugs
• holding that an officer did not seize an individual simply by asking whether he “smoked marijuana” or had any illegal drugs
• holding that an officer’s question about “possession and use of marijuana” did not, in and of itself, convert a consensual encounter into an investigatory stop
• “So long as a reasonable person would feel free ‘to disregard the police and go about his business,’ the encounter is consensual and there is no violation of the Fourth Amendment.” (quoting Bostick, 501 U.S. at 434)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Atkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-31· cited 85×
• Jones v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-02-25· cited 31×
• People v. Arebalos-Cabrera
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-09-14· cited 6×
• Atkins v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-31· cited 2×
• People v. Arebalos-Cabrera
  California Court of Appeal· 2018-09-14
• Commonwealth v. Kadison
  Arlington County Circuit Court· 2004-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2004-12-06

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• United States v. Drayton
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-17· cited 1,084×
• Reittinger v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-09· cited 104×
• Dickerson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-03-27· cited 29×