4 Va. App. 207 - Stokes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 1997
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Texas v. Brown · Scott v. United States · Arizona v. Hicks · Gouled v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“(a) the officer must be lawfully in a position to view and seize the item, [and] (b) it must be immediately apparent to the officer that the item is evidence of a crime, contraband, or otherwise subject to seizure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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