Moss 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 manner in which a uniformed officer confronted defendant with a blinding flashlight amounted to a seizure
• holding that the manner in which a uniformed officer confronted defendant with a blinding flashlight amounted to a seizure
• a “seizure” occurs “whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away”
• an officer’s suspicions must be based on something more than a hunch

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Welshman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-07-21· cited 123×
• Van Andre Beasley v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-07-17· cited 110×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-10· cited 95×
• Raab v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-30· cited 82×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-03· cited 79×
• Gregory v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-19· cited 52×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-06· cited 50×
• Goodwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-04· cited 42×
• Riley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-07· cited 42×
• Bethea v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-05-26· cited 31×
• Sheler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-07-09· cited 19×
• Woodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-23· cited 19×
• Armstrong v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-02-02· cited 16×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-12-23· cited 10×
• Mejia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-22· cited 3×
• Thomas v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-13· cited 2×
• Cochran v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-01-26· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Hargrove
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 1990-07-09· cited 1×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-12
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1991-02-26

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• United States v. Derek James Beck
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-09-17· cited 124×