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55 Va. App. 742 - Byrd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2011
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Ornelas v. United States · Draper v. United States

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

  1. “for a year prior to completing the process of becoming a confidential informant. Canada stated that during that time the informant had”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “on the police to require that the informant's information led to convictions because”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “does not diminish its significance. Gates, 462 U.S. at 245 n. 13, 103 S.Ct. at 2335.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.