State v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 35 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]s applied to circumstances where an application for a warrant contains both tainted and untainted evidence, the issued warrant is valid if the untainted evidence is sufficient to support a finding of probable cause to issue the warrant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mastella L. Jackson · State v. Daniel J. Van Linn

2. “Murray simply does not contemplate that, in the absence of any relevant fact-finding by a trial court, an appellate court can reach its own 'inference' about whether the law enforcement officers sought the [subpoena] on the basis of evidence that is genuinely independent of the unlawfully obtained evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Daniel J. Van Linn

3. “if the agents' decision to seek the warrant was prompted by what they had seen during the initial entry, or if information obtained during that entry was presented to the Magistrate and affected his decision to issue the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Daniel J. Van Linn