19 Va. App. 103 - Hetmeyer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2019
20 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 Newland v. Georgia · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · 12 Va. App. 1066 - Commonwealth v. Grimstead · 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth · Epperly 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Expert testimony with respect to a dog’s reaction to the odor of narcotics is admissible when supported by a proper foundation. Such foundation must establish the appropriate training and reliability of the dog in the detection of specific drugs by odor and the witness handler’s expertise in interpreting the dog’s behavior, together with circumstances conducive to a dependable scent identification by the animal and a credible evaluation of its related behavior.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A challenge to an `experts . . . methods and determinations. . ., even by other experts, does not render inadmissible expert opinion based on those. . . methods and computations' but goes to the `weight of the evidence,' raising 'factual questions to be determined by the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkins 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.