State v. Strieff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “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.”

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

2. “If the evidence would not necessarily have been discovered, then it must be excluded to effect the primary purpose of the exclusionary rule: to deter unconstitutional police conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Mitchell

3. “(dissipating the taint of the unlawful detention, and that Officer Fackrell's detention of Strieff was not a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Strieff