44 Va. App. 347 - Cherry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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

1. “[T]he Supreme Court ... intimated in McArthur , that if any bright line exists for warrantless entries into the home, it should be drawn between jailable and nonjailable offenses rather than between felonies and misdemeanors.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Rodriguez · 168 Md. App. 412 - Gorman v. State

2. “the officers could not have known in advance that their conduct would precipitate an emergency involving the probable destruction of evidence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Evans v. Commonwealth

3. “information that the possessors of the contraband are aware that the police may be on their trail”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Commonwealth