Lowe 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 “generalized risk to officer safety” during a traffic stop “permits officers to order occupants to exit a lawfully stopped vehicle”
• holding that a police officer “may conduct a pat-down search for weapons if the officer can point to specific and articulable facts which reasonably lead him to believe criminal activity may be afoot and the person subjected to the search may be armed and dangerous”
• finding an officer had reasonable suspicion to frisk the defendant for weapons during an investigation for possession of marijuana based on the quantity of drugs found, -5- the defendant’s bulky shirt, and the number of vehicle occupants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Andrews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 109×
• McLellan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-11-20· cited 26×
• Bandy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-08-12· cited 20×
• Patrick Darnell Hill v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2018-04-24· cited 4×
• Joseph Franklin Sechrist v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-07-02

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• United States v. Collins Kusi Sakyi
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-10-30· cited 126×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-06-09· cited 124×
• Shears v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-11-05· cited 116×
• Lansdown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-10-14· cited 95×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-07-30· cited 61×
• Motley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 50×
• Peguese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-06· cited 21×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-03-23· cited 13×