State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Blockburger v. United States · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whereas the inevitable discovery doctrine requires a speculative analysis of whether the police would have ultimately obtained the same evidence by other lawful means, the independent source exception contains no similar speculative considerations. Rather than considering whether the police would have found the same evidence by lawful means, the independent sources exception requires considering if evidence is tainted by earlier unlawful government actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green
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