State v. Wildman’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2020
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Florida v. Royer · Brown v. Illinois · State v. George
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Factors to consider in determining whether the consent is sufficiently removed from the taint of the illegal police activity include the length of time between the illegal activity and the subsequent search, the presence of intervening circumstances, and the purpose and flagrancy of the misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“[w]hen consent is obtained after illegal police activity, " '[t]he consent will be held voluntary only if there is proof of an unequivocal break in the chain of illegality sufficient to dissipate the taint of the prior illegal action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams
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.