Warlick v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 2 Va. App. 639 - Walls v. Commonwealth (1986), 28 Va. App. 187 - Timbers v. Commonwealth (1998)
52 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Nardone v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The exclusionary rule operates ... against evidence seized and information acquired during an unlawful search or seizure ... [and] against derivative evidence discovered because of the unlawful act.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence attributed to an independent source”
2 later decisions 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.