MacIejack v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Evidence, though illegally obtained, may nevertheless be used for impeachment purposes. Walder v. United States, (1954) 347 U.S. 62 , 74 S.Ct. 354 , 98 L.Ed. 503 ; Jacks v. State, (1979) Ind., 394 N.E.2d 166 ; Johnson v. State, (1976) 258 Ind. 683 , 284 N.E.2d 517 . ‘It is one thing to say that the Government cannot make an affirmative use of evidence unlawfully obtained. It is quite another to say that the defendant can turn the illegal method by which evidence in the Government’s possession was obtained to his own advantage, and provide himself with a shield against contradiction [of] his untruths. Such an extension of the Weeks [v. U. S., 232 U.S. 383 , 34 S.Ct. 341 , 58 L.Ed. 652 ] doctrine would be a perversion of the Fourth Amendment.’ Walder v. United States, supra, at 65, 74 S.Ct. at 356 , 98 L.Ed. at 507 .””

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