Southers v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2013
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stoner v. California · Adcock v. Commonwealth · United States v. Hammond · Commonwealth v. Neal · United States v. Miller
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause for a search exists when the facts are sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable prudence in the belief that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.