State v. Sugar’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Koedatich (1988), Williams v. State (2002)
49 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 Nix v. Williams · Segura v. United States · State v. Roth · State v. Novembrino · State v. McKnight
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) proper, normal and specific investigatory procedures would have been pursued in order to complete the investigation of the case; (2) under all of the surrounding relevant circumstances the pursuit of those procedures would have inevitably resulted in discovery of the evidence; and (3) the discovery of the evidence through the use of such procedures would have occurred wholly independently of the discovery of such evidence by unlawful means." [ Id. at 156-57, 527 A. 2d 1377 (quoting Sugar II, supra, 100 N.J. at 235 , 495 A. 2d 90 ).]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence is admissible even though it was the product of an illegal search,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] number of possibilities may cumulatively constitute clear- and convincing evidence that the evidence would be discovered. The State need only present facts or elements — proving each such fact or element by a preponderance of the evidence— that in combination clearly and convincingly establish the ultimate fact and lead to the conclusion that the evidence would be inevitably discovered. [Id. at 159, 527 A.2d 1377 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.