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← 2002 MT 330 - State v. Courville

State v. Courville’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

62
cited by 62 later decisions
3
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

62 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Daniels (2003), State v. Cybulski (2009)

62 state decisions

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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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Leon · Unified Industries, Inc. v. Easley · Day v. Payne · State v. Dawson

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

  1. “`The general rule is that issues not raised before the trial court and new legal theories are not considered by this Court on appeal because it is unfair to fault the trial court on an issue it was never given an opportunity to consider.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re Mw
  2. “`so attenuated from the claimed [Fourth Amendment violation] that the evidence of his conduct lost its primary constitutional taint'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence of criminal conduct committed in response to a claimed Fourth Amendment violation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.