6 Va. App. 215 - Derr v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 12 Va. App. 1066 - Commonwealth v. Grimstead (1991), 12 Va. App. 744 - Commonwealth v. Ealy (1991)
29 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · United States v. Ross · Texas v. Brown · Henry 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]uspicion, or even `strong reason to suspect'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence obtained as a direct result of an unconstitutional search or seizure is plainly subject to exclusion. The question to be resolved when it is claimed that evidence subsequently obtained is ‘tainted’ or is ‘fruit’ of a prior illegality is whether the challenged evidence was “ ‘come at by exploitation of [the initial] illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“meant to police officers trained in analyzing the observed conduct for purposes of crime control.”
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.