23 Va. App. 412 - Bynum v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2012
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. Mendenhall · Florida v. Jimeno · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Newland v. Georgia
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The United States Supreme Court has articulated the standard for measuring the scope of an individual’s consent under the Fourth Amendment to be “ ‘objective’ reasonableness—what would the typical person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect?” Flori da v. Jimeno, 500 U.S. 248, 251 , 111 S.Ct. 1801, 1804 , 114 L.Ed.2d 297 (1991). Furthermore, the Court stated that, “[t]he scope of a search is generally defined by its expressed object.” Id.”
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.