State v. Barkus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Reversing the defendant's conviction for possession of cocaine, we concluded that because the search warrant was tainted by the Miranda violation, the subsequent search was illegal and all evidence seized thereby was inadmissible at trial.”

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

2. “In Gravel , police elicited information from a defendant in violation of his Miranda rights, then used that information to procure a search warrant that ultimately yielded cocaine and related paraphernalia.”

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

3. “Essential to our reasoning in Gravel was the fact that no act of free will on the defendant's part intervened between the primary illegality and the subsequent search.”

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