State v. Topanotes’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Utah v. Strieff (2016), 195 L. Ed. 2d 400 - Utah v. Strieff (2016)
37 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 Nix v. Williams · Murray v. United States · United States v. Cherry · Coston v. Bank of Malvern · Bailey v. Bayles
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'any legal ground or theory apparent on the record,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] crucial element of inevitable discovery is independence; there must be some independent basis for discovery, and the investigation that inevitably would have led to the evidence [must] be independent of the constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[ilf we hadn't done it wrong, we would have done it right.'”
3 later decisions 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.