6 Va. App. 193 - Crosby v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 49 Va. App. 439 - Williams v. Commonwealth (2007), 17 Va. App. 730 - Deer v. Commonwealth (1994)
33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Payton v. New York · Ker v. State of California · Bumper v. North Carolina · Bates v. State Bar
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) police officers have probable cause to believe evidence is on the premises; (2) delaying entry would create a substantial risk that evidence will be lost or destroyed or the critical nature of the circumstances prevents the use of a warrant procedure; and (3) the police must not be responsible for creating their own exigencies. Crosby, 6 Va. App. at 201 , 367 S.E.2d at 735 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here officers, having probable cause, enter premises ... and secure the premises from within to preserve the status quo while others, in good faith, are in the process of obtaining a warrant, they do not violate the Fourth Amendment’s proscription against unreasonable seizures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because [the] Detective [] was lawfully securing the premises, the evidence in plain view, i.e., the sawed-off shotgun, was subject to seizure under the plain view exception to the warrant requirement.”
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.