Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2001
18 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 United States v. Tucker · Manley v. Commonwealth · Guzewicz 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.
“The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires that a search warrant "particularly" describe the place to be searched. This requirement is met "if the description is such that the officer with a search warrant can, with reasonable effort ascertain and identify the place intended." We have held that the same mandate of particularity of description and the same test of compliance are applicable under the Fourth Amendment and under the Virginia statutes. [1]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a certain Three Story Rock Cement Dwelling”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson 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.