Wells v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “Proximity to the scene of a recently committed crime is another factor which police may consider in determining whether to engage in a Terry stop.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cartnail v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-14· cited 129×
• Harris v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-10-31· cited 98×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-03· cited 79×
• Stokes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-01-12· cited 65×
• Ricks v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-12-10· cited 56×
• Shearer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-02-06· cited 40×
• Watts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-11-02· cited 37×
• Hardy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-02-08· cited 33×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-10-14· cited 26×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-31· cited 17×
• Lowery v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-01-16· cited 13×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-03· cited 9×
• Gibson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-18· cited 8×
• Jesse Gregory Edmond v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-08-02· cited 6×
• 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×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2000-10-06· cited 1×
• Lemar Jamie Anderson, s/k/a Lamar J. Anderson v. CW
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-10
• Commonwealth v. Bushnell
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1993-11-22
• Commonwealth v. Megel
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1998-01-08

Cites

29 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×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Texas v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 3,147×
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 2,153×
• United States v. Paul v. Oates
  Second Circuit· 1977-06-03· cited 472×
• United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Pierre Fouche, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-11-19· cited 160×
• DePriest v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-08-04· cited 149×
• United States v. Domingo S. Canieso and Siu Tsien Chou
  Second Circuit· 1972-11-22· cited 139×
• United States v. Darlene Longmire, A/K/A Darlene Brown
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-06-13· cited 121×
• Lowe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-11-27· cited 119×
• United States v. Edwards
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-04-06· cited 101×
• United States v. Jan W. Jackson
  Second Circuit· 1981-06-15· cited 99×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-10-28· cited 99×
• The PEOPLE v. Braden
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-05-23· cited 98×
• State v. Achter
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1974-07-22· cited 58×
• State v. Sharp
  Montana Supreme Court· 1985-07-08· cited 49×