State v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 152 Ohio St. 3d 368 - State v. Banks-Harvey (2018), State v. Kinley (1995)
164 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 · United States v. Wade · Nix v. Williams · Kastigar 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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“illegally obtained evidence is properly admitted in a trial court proceeding once it is established that the evidence would have been ultimately or inevitably discovered during the course of a lawful investigation.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“then the deterrence rationale [for the exclusionary rule] has so little basis that the evidence should be received. Anything less would reject logic, experience, and common sense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he state must show that there is a high degree of probability that police would have discovered the derivative evidence apart from the unlawful conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark
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.