James 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 the defendant’s “jittery” behavior and repeated hand movements after the officer requested that the defendant keep his hands on the dashboard justified a limited pat down
• “Courts are not remiss in crediting the practical experience of officers who observe on a daily basis what transpires on the street.”
• officer justified in removing a three to four inch glass smoking device from suspect’s pocket
• pat down of appellant upheld after he acted “somewhat jittery” and “was unresponsive to [the officer’s] request to keep his hands in [the officer’s] view,” which caused the officer “to be concerned that appellant might be reaching for ‘a weapon or something like that in the car’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Welshman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 123×
• Andrews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 109×
• Atkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-31· cited 85×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-04-28· cited 33×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-04-13· cited 30×
• Alston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-06-03· cited 22×
• Lowe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-11-07· cited 18×
• Giles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-05-30· cited 17×
• 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×
• Harrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-03· cited 9×
• Patrick Darnell Hill v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-04-24· cited 4×
• Timothy M. Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-15· cited 3×
• Atkins v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-31· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. St. Louis
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2003-03-26
• Commonwealth v. Lim
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2004-12-22

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Desist v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-26· cited 1,237×
• Fore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 284×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-09-01· cited 130×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-08-29· cited 48×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-24· cited 22×
• Warren v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-03-04· cited 8×