Fore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
191 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 25 Va. App. 193 - McGee v. Commonwealth (1997), 26 Va. App. 1 - Archer v. Commonwealth (1997)
191 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Chambers v. Maroney · South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden is upon [appellant] to show that [the denial of the suppression motion], when the evidence is considered most favorably to the Commonwealth, constituted reversible error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could reasonably fear that [an accomplice], or [the defendant's] mother-in-law, or some confederate or friend, might appear at [the car dealership], pay the repair bill, and remove the car”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“exigent circumstances justified the officer's failure to obtain a search warrant”
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.