State v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Clark (2001), State v. Brunetti (2006)
62 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Chimel v. California · Brown v. Illinois · Nix v. Williams · Alderman v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he initial determination is, therefore, whether the challenged evidence is in some sense the product of illegal government activity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the exclusionary rule, evidence must be suppressed if it is found to be the `fruit' of prior police illegality. . . All evidence is not, however, a `fruit of the poisonous tree' simply because it would not have been discovered but for the illegal action of law enforcement officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he factors to be considered in determining whether the taint has been dissipated include the temporal proximity of the illegal police action and the discovery of the evidence, the presence of intervening circumstances, and the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.”
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.