17 Va. App. 313 - Arnold v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2018
23 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Hudson v. Palmer · United States v. Ross · Texas v. Brown · Horton v. California
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although as in Harris , the shopping bag in this case was of the sort that law-abiding citizens put to legitimate use on a daily basis, [the officer] testified that the manner in which the bag was folded led him to suspect, based on his training and experience, that it was lined with aluminum foil [f|or use as a shoplifting aid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a narrow one: Did the search of their friend's automobile after they had left it violate any Fourth Amendment right of the petitioners?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the distinctive character of the balloon itself spoke volumes as to its contents - particularly to the trained eye of the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Grandison v. Com.
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.