201 Ga. App. 792 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Roberts v. State (1994), People v. Brendlin (2008)
50 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 Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Texas · Hawes v. State
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Ejvidence is (not) ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. Rather, the more apt question in such a case is ‘whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“attenuated the connection between the illegal stop and the search that revealed the evidence . . . , thereby rendering that evidence admissible. To hold otherwise would effectively render the outstanding warrant invalid because of police conduct unrelated to its issuance, and would immunize [Ruffin] from arrest for past conduct already properly determined to constitute probable cause for his arrest. . . . Since the warrant was valid, [Ruffin’s] arrest pursuant thereto was lawful, and he was lawfully searched incident to that arrest. 20”
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.