56 Va. App. 592 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · Payton v. New York · Ornelas v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“relat[ed] not just to easily obtained facts and conditions existing at the time of the tip, but to future actions of third parties ordinarily not easily predicted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`inherent reliability of the informant's information.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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