Mejia v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that officer seized appellant without first having attempted “a less intrusive alternative or explaining why such less intrusive means were impractical”
• finding no reasonable basis for seizure when sole reason for taking hold of appellant was appellant’s posture in preventing officer from exiting his police vehicle after being summoned by the officer to the vehicle
• officer unlawfully seized appellant without first attempting “less intrusive alternative or explaining why such less intrusive means were impractical”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-10· cited 30×
• Roulhac v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-06-12· cited 14×
• Timothy M. Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-15· cited 3×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• United States v. Hensley
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-08· cited 2,340×
• Fore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 284×
• Servis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 274×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• Leeth v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-03-12· cited 62×
• Motley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-11-23· cited 50×
• Moss v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 46×
• McCoy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-05-06· cited 42×
• Quigley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-03· cited 41×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-07-05· cited 36×