6 Va. App. 541 - Wells v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Cartnail v. State (2000), Stokes v. State (2001)
41 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Cortez
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court may consider trial evidence in ruling on the correctness of a denial of a pretrial motion to suppress”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Com.“has `a legitimate expectation of privacy' in the property searched or seized.”
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.