8 Va. App. 281 - Corey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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33 state decisions

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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. “`harbored an objectively reasonable belief in the existence of probable cause.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miles v. Com. · 42 Va. App. 481 - Anzualda v. Commonwealth

2. “Citizen-informants do not carry the same presumption of reliability as police officers, but less evidence is required to establish their veracity than that of criminal informants. A citizen-informant’s veracity may be established by the absence of an apparent motive to falsify or independent police corroboration of the details provided by the informant. Where a citizen-informant reports a crime committed in his presence, but in which he was not involved, or one in which he was a victim, police officers may act upon such a report if the reliability of the report is enhanced by a police interview with the victim or other corroborating information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 30 Va. App. 495 - Lester v. Commonwealth

3. “The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the “veracity” and “basis of knowledge” of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a “substantial basis for ... [concluding]” that probable cause existed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 43 Va. App. 61 - Slade v. Commonwealth