State v. Le’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The exclusionary rule requires courts to suppress evidence obtained through violation of a defendant's constitutional rights. The purpose of the rule is to deter police from exploiting their illegal conduct and to protect individual rights. Under the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine, the exclusionary rule applies to evidence derived directly and indirectly from the illegal police conduct. Derivative evidence will be excluded unless it was not obtained by exploitation of the initial illegality or by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint. To prove that the evidence was purged of taint, the State must show either that: (1) intervening circumstances have attenuated the link between the illegality and the evidence; (2) the evidence was discovered through a source independent from the illegality; or (3) the evidence would inevitably have been discovered through legitimate means.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McReynolds

2. “(1) temporal proximity; (2) the presence of intervening circumstances, and (3) the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McReynolds