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← 36 Va. App. 448 - Belmer v. Commonwealth

36 Va. App. 448 - Belmer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
5
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Gault · Lane v. Peterson · United States v. Knotts

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

  1. “simply left them alone in the room,” the court "c[ould not] find as a matter of law that appellant’s expectation of privacy was reasonable.”). 18 . Appellant acknowledges that the government did ”muster[] a certain quantum of proof that [appellant] may have aided and abetted in the murder,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'We do not address' issues that the parties failed to raise at trial and failed to present or develop on appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “in the jail house, the age-old truism still obtains: 'Walls have ears'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.