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← 56 Va. App. 592 - Smith v. Commonwealth

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

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

  1. “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
  2. “`inherent reliability of the informant's information.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.