49 Va. App. 413 - Glenn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “the police officers had reasonable grounds to believe that the grandfather's consent to search his house included permission to open a backpack found on the floor in one of the rooms.”

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

2. “[n]othing about the backpack itself put the officers on notice that Glenn claimed an exclusive privacy interest in it.”

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

3. “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. Evans v. Commonwealth