Harris 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 a detention based solely upon an anonymous tip alleging criminal conduct was not supported by reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal conduct
• holding that an anonymous tip accusing a black male of being armed and selling drugs at a specified street comer did not provide officers with the “reasonable, articulable suspicion” necessary for a valid seizure
• noting that an appellate court may take judicial notice of its own records in a case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-04-23· cited 238×
• Harris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 98×
• Raab v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-30· cited 82×
• Wright v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-01-13· cited 47×
• United States v. Irvin Bumpers
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-01-16· cited 32×
• Alston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-03· cited 22×
• Kim v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2017-04-13· cited 19×
• William Rand Barnes v. Lucille F. Barnes
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-10-28· cited 16×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-02-13· cited 10×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-10-06· cited 8×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-02-04· cited 7×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-29· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Shanklin
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2003-06-09
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 2005-05-27

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. J. L.
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,787×
• Ewell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 56×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-29· cited 19×
• Cunningham v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-01-20· cited 19×