Virginia v. Brunson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Commonwealth’s theory transforms the seizure from an event occurring atareadily determined and objective point in time into an event, subjective in nature, whose occurrence is known only to the Commonwealth. Furthermore, the timing of this subjective event is within the absolute discretion of the Commonwealth. Only the Commonwealth knows when the seizure changed from ‘evidentiary’ to ‘forfeiture.’ This theory of seizure can effectively defeat any allegation that the information was not filed within the [ninety]-day limitation period and renders meaningless the apparent protection afforded property owners-releasing property if no information is filed within 90 days of seizure.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Benally