39 Va. App. 306 - King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · South Dakota v. Opperman · Cady v. Dombrowski · 25 Va. App. 193 - McGee v. Commonwealth
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the police may conduct a warrantless inventory search of a vehicle provided the following conditions are met: 1) the vehicle must be lawfully impounded; 2) the impoundment and subsequent search must be conducted pursuant to standard police procedures; and 3) the impoundment and subsequent search must not be a pretextual surrogate for an improper investigatory motive.”
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.