198 So. 2d 668 - French v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2012
16 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Ker v. State of California · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[e]vidence which is located by the police as a result of information and leads obtained from illegal[] [conduct], constitutes the fruit of the poisonous tree' and is ... inadmissible in evidence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Under the circumstances, it appears that we are compelled to reverse these convictions. Once the trial court found that the tangible evidence, obtained as a result of an illegal search and seizure, could not be introduced into evidence it should have precluded the introduction into evidence of the oral and written confessions of the appellants, which were obtained after the police official confronted them with the tangible evidence which had been illegally seized. Evidence obtained as a result of an unreasonable search and seizure is inadmissible against one who has standing to complain... . Evidence which is located by the police as a result of information and leads obtained from illegally seized evidence, constitutes `the fruit of the poisonous tree' and is equally inadmissible in evidence... . Statements made by a defendant when confronted by the police with the fruits of an illegal search constitute `the fruit of a poisonous tree' and are inadmissible in evidence. ... The trial court having concluded that the discovery of the tangible evidence was as a result of an unlawful search, the introduction into evidence of the oral and written confessions [which were forthcoming from the defendant within a very short time of the unlawful search and seizure of the tangible evidence] should have been precluded. See: Outten v. State, Fla.App. 1967, 197 So.2d 594 ." 198 So.2d 668 at 669 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Statements made by a defendant when confronted by the police with the fruits of an illegal search constitute ‘the fruit of a poisonous tree’ and are inadmissible in evidence.” 198 So.2d at 669 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.