Keeter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 2 Va. App. 639 - Walls v. Commonwealth (1986), 28 Va. App. 187 - Timbers v. Commonwealth (1998)
44 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 · McDonald v. United States · Arkansas v. Sanders · Vale v. Louisiana · Babich 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n each case, a determination must be made whether the law enforcement officers had probable cause at the time of their warrantless entry to believe that cognizable exigent circumstances were present.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exigent circumstance exists justifying such an entry where the law enforcement officers have probable cause to believe that it is necessary to prevent destruction of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“since the warrant ... was already being prepared and would have led to the discovery of the evidence ... even if the prior entry was unlawful.”
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.