State v. Fortier’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Juarez v. State (1988), State v. Cobb (1977)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Adams v. Williams · Alderman v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Evidence is not classified as a fruit [of the poisonous tree] requiring exclusion, however, merely because it would not have been discovered `but for' the primary invasion: `Rather, the more apt question in such a case is "whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint."' Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. [471] at 488, 83 S.Ct. [407] at 417, 9 L.Ed.2d [441] at 455." Id. at 335 , 553 P.2d at 1209 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cobb · State v. McMahon“There must be a reasonable suspicion by the law enforcement officer that `some activity out of the ordinary' is or has occurred, some suggestion to connect the detained person with the unusual activity, and some indication that the activity is related to crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jarzab
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.