Commonwealth v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 35 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An accurate description of a subject’s readily observable location and appearance is of course reliable in this limited sense: It -will help the police correctly identify the person whom the tipster means to accuse. Such a tip, however, does not show that the tipster has knowledge of concealed criminal activity. The reasonable suspicion here at issue requires that a tip be rehable in its assertion of illegality, not just in its tendency to identify a determinate person.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 39 Va. App. 624 - Jackson v. Commonwealth · 41 Va. App. 211 - Jackson v. Commonwealth

2. “the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party in the trial court, and will accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all reasonable inferences fairly deducible from that evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Com. v. Norman

3. “brief intrusion on an individual's liberty,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 851 So. 2d 1039 - State v. Sims