7 Va. App. 234 - Elliotte v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2012
17 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 · Welsh v. Wisconsin · Oliver v. United States · United States v. Jeffers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [Commonwealth] ... bears the burden of establishing consent and this burden is heavier where the alleged consent is based on an implication.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Consent to a search ... must be unequivocal, specific and intelligently given ... and it is not lightly to be inferred.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is well settled that the burden is on the Commonwealth to establish an exception to the warrant requirement.”
2 later decisions 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.