246 Pa. Super. 7 - Commonwealth v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 1987
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Commonwealth v. Richman · Commonwealth v. Collins · Collins v. Brierly
Most-quoted passages
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“We need not hold that all evidence is the ‘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 the instant objection is made has been come at by the exploitation of that illegality or by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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