260 Pa. Super. 349 - Commonwealth v. Diggs’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
December 1984
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Mapp v. Ohio · Stovall v. Denno · Gerstein v. Pugh
Most-quoted passages
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““We need not hold that all evidence is '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.’ ” Id. at 487-88 , 83 S.Ct. at 417 (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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