10 Va. App. 541 - Lanier v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 14 Va. App. 487 - Hatcher v. Commonwealth (1992), 13 Va. App. 549 - Wilson v. Commonwealth (1992)
40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that no fixed rule with respect to disclosure is justifiable. The problem is one that calls for balancing the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual’s right to prepare his defense. Whether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case, taking into consideration the crime charged, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informer’s testimony, and other relevant factors.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether [a person] was in custody, the totality of the circumstances must be evaluated from the standpoint of a reasonable man in [that person’s] position. Factors which must be considered include “whether a suspect is questioned in familiar or neutral surroundings, the number of officers present, the degree of physical restraint, and the duration and character of the interrogation.” The language used by the officer to summon the individual and the extent to which he is confronted with evidence of guilt may also be significant factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]he task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the ‘veracity’ and ‘basis of knowledge’ of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.