Cabbler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably South Dakota v. Opperman (1976), 6 Va. App. 507 - Servis v. Commonwealth (1988)
9 federal appellate · 70 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Ker v. State of California · Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has always been the public policy of the Commonwealth to preserve and protect the individual rights of its citizens. Public policy also dictates that a citizen's rights in his property shall likewise be preserved and protected. Thus it would appear, and we so hold, that the policy established and the procedure followed by the Roanoke Police Department to protect the property of a citizen arrested away from his home in possession of property where no other immediate means is available for safekeeping of such property are reasonable and in accord with the public policy of the Commonwealth....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in accord with the public policy of the Commonwealth, [was] not violative of the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights and serve[d] the best interest of the property owner by protecting and safeguarding the property in his possession at the time of his arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as to partially block the ambulance driveway leading to the hospital emergency entrance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.