9 Va. App. 394 - Shearer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 13 Va. App. 566 - Jones v. Commonwealth (1992), Thomas v. Commonwealth (1993)
32 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 Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Rakas v. Illinois · Sedillo v. United States · Arizona v. Hicks
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“five months after a general district court finds probable cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Com.“will not be counted in determining whether the Commonwealth complied”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Com.
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.