Jones 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 existence of “reasonable articulable suspicion [to believe] that [a defendant] possessed a concealed weapon . . . ipso facto rendered him potentially armed and dangerous,” permitting a Terry stop
• stating that reasonable suspicion that suspect possessed a concealed weapon “ipso facto rendered him potentially armed and dangerous,” justifying a Terry search
• holding officers may reasonably suspect persons of unlawfully carrying concealed firearms based on particularized belief that such persons are carrying concealed firearms
• “The law does not expect [that] a police officer must gamble on turning away from a possible danger and chance taking a bullet in the back . . . .” (second alteration in original
• “[I]t is our responsibility to review de novo questions of law and the ‘trial court’s application of defined legal standards to the particular facts of a case.’” (quoting Watts v. Commonwealth, 38 Va. App. 206, 213 (2002))
• “[W]e conclude the officers, at the time of [the defendant’s] seizure, had a reasonable articulable suspicion that [the defendant] possessed a concealed weapon and . . . a reasonable suspicion of that offense ipso facto rendered him potentially armed and dangerous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Van Andre Beasley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-17· cited 110×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-04-28· cited 33×
• Patrick Darnell Hill v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-04-24· cited 4×
• Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-02-23
• Yovani Cardenas Flores v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-04-22
• Thomas Wesley Hollingsworth v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-11-25

Cites

60 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• 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×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• United States v. Sokolow
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 4,647×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• United States v. Drayton
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-17· cited 1,084×
• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 907×
• Commonwealth v. Grimstead
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-05· cited 429×
• Servis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 274×
• McCain v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-04-20· cited 230×
• Emerson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-08· cited 160×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-11-01· cited 156×
• Blevins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-29· cited 132×
• United States v. Gary Moorefield AKA Maurice Gordon
  Third Circuit· 1997-04-04· cited 128×