State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]ny flight from police detention is fraught with the potential for violence because flight will incite a pursuit, which in turn will endanger the suspect, the police, and innocent bystanders. Cases abound in which a suspect’s flight from the police set in motion an ensuing chase that resulted in death or serious injury either to a police officer, a suspect, or a bystander. For practical and public-policy-based reasons, constitutional deci-sionmaking cannot be left to a suspect in the street, even on who has done no wrong; a suspect cannot be the judge of his own cause and take matters into his own hands and resist or take flight. This reasoned approach encourages persons to avail themselves of judicial remedies, and signals that if a person peaceably submits to an unconstitutional stop the result will be suppression of the evidence seized from him.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fowler v. State · Cole v. State

2. “The overarching purpose of the [exclusionary] rule is to deter the police from engaging in constitutional violations by denying the prosecution any profit from illicitly-obtained evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 436 N.J. Super. 440 - State of New Jersey v. Calvin Presley · 401 N.J. Super. 331 - State v. Gioe

3. “is to uphold judicial integrity by serving notice that our courts will not provide a forum for evidence procured by unconstitutional means.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State of New Jersey v. Julian B. Hamlett · State v. Chisum