United States v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This court understands the importance of the retroactivity doctrine in insuring that similarly situated criminal defendants are treated the same. In this court’s view, however, the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is of equal importance. The exclusionary rule is intended to deter future police misconduct, not to cure past violations of a defendant’s rights. Future police misconduct is not deterred when, as here, the officer did not engage in any misconduct and did not make a mistake of fact or law, but acted in objective good faith on the search incident to arrest law as it existed at the time, and had existed for many years. There is no deterrent effect to be gained by applying the exclusionary rule in this case. [United States v Grote, unpublished order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, entered July 15, 2009 (Case No. CR-08-6057-LRS); 2009 WL 2068023 , at ; 2009 US Dist LEXIS 60893 , at -10 (Grote II).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Mungo