13 Va. App. 168 - Commonwealth v. Woody’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2000
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · Keeter v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Heaton v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[0]fficers are not required to possess either the gift of prophecy or the infallible wisdom that comes only with hindsight. They must be judged by their reaction to circumstances as they reasonably appeared to trained law enforcement officers to exist when the decision to enter was made.””
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.