State v. Boll’s Empirical Analysis

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26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The independent source doctrine applies when evidence is legally seized through a source independent of an illegal search. The exception was first recognized by the United States Supreme Court in Silverthome Lumber Co. v. United States, 251 U.S. 385 , 40 S.Ct. 182 , 64 L.Ed. 319 (1920), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Havens, 446 U.S. 620 , 100 S.Ct. 1912 , 64 L.Ed.2d 559 (1980). The Silverthome Court held that although the exclusionary rule forbids any use of illegally seized evidence, “[i]f knowledge of [the evidence] is gained from an independent source [it] may be proved like any [other].... ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Heney

2. “The inevitable discovery doctrine applies where evidence may have been seized illegally, but where an alternative legal means of discovery, such as a routine police inventory search, would inevitably have led to the same result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guthrie v. Weber

3. “Furthermore, we review the issuing judge's probable cause decision to grant a search warrant independently of the conclusion reached by the suppression hearing court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Raveydts