People v. Hillyard’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably State v. Thompson (1989), State v. Jones (2001)
43 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · Brown v. Illinois · Gerstein v. Pugh · Boyd 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat however was the extent of the misconduct. He did not arrest upon such general suspicion. Rather, he acted because of the Navy's outstanding arrest warrant.... Once he knew of the warrant, the officer would have been derelict in his duty not to have arrested the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]ot all evidence is ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. If the evidence to which the objection is made has been produced by exploitation of the initial illegal police action, the evidence is tainted and inadmissible. But if the evidence has been obtained by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint, the evidence is admissible.... Thus, if passage of time has caused the connection between the initial illegal police action and the offered evidence to become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint, the evidence is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rodriguez““Arrests made without warrant or without probable cause, for questioning or ‘investigation’, would be encouraged by the knowledge that evidence derived therefrom could well be made admissible at trial by the simple expedient of giving Miranda warnings. Any incentive to avoid Fourth Amendment violations would be eviscerated by making the warnings, in effect, a ‘cure-all’, and the constitutional guarantee against unlawful searches and seizures could be said to be reduced to ‘a form of words.’ ” Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. at 602-03 , 95 S.Ct. at 2261 , 45 L.Ed.2d at 426 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCall v. People
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.