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← 210 SW3D 173 - Southers v. Commonwealth

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.

  1. “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 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.