4 Va. App. 202 - Kearney v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2014
20 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. Ross · Oliver v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Walter v. United States · Multistate Legal Studies, Inc. v. Ladd, Register of Copyrights
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] lawful search of premises described in a warrant `extends to the entire area in which the object[s] of the search may be found.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] search may be as extensive as reasonably required to locate the items described in the warrant.’ ” Id. (citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The permissible scope of a search is limited by the terms of the warrant pursuant to which it is conducted.”
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.