45 Va. App. 473 - Kyer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 48 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “On appeal from a denial of a suppression motion, we must review the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, giving it the benefit of any reasonable inferences.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Va. App. 556 - Glenn v. Commonwealth · 48 Va. App. 243 - McLaughlin v. Commonwealth

2. “We therefore hold that as a general matter determinations of reasonable suspicion and probable cause should be reviewed de novo on appeal. Having said this, we hasten to point out that a reviewing court should take care both to review findings of historical fact only for clear error and to give due weight to inferences drawn from those facts by resident judges and local law enforcement officers.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Va. App. 439 - Williams v. Commonwealth

3. “the defendant must show that the trial court's denial of his suppression motion, when the evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the prosecution, was reversible error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Va. App. 556 - Glenn v. Commonwealth