48 Va. App. 737 - Adams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. “a reasonable officer, acting in objective good faith, reviewing the facts presented under oath to the magistrate, could have believed the magistrate had probable cause to issue the search warrant for Adams' [ ] residence and that he could, therefore, rely on the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. Com.

2. “the officer relied in good faith on evidence before the magistrate, as indicated in the written facts sworn to under oath contained in the [criminal] complaint and affidavit [for the search warrant]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. Com.

3. “In reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress based on the alleged violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights, we consider the facts in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. Com.