Everhart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Doering v. State (1988), State v. Bailey (1980)
129 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Aguilar v. Texas
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Once a defendant, with requisite standing, has timely and factually asserted that the challenged evidence was derived from information obtained in an unlawful search and seizure, the court must afford him an opportunity to explore in detail the circumstances under which the evidence was acquired____””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““compel the conclusion that if data set forth as a basis for the existence of probable cause in an application for a search warrant, was come upon or derived as a result of an illegal search and seizure, such primary illegality — in the absence of evidence of attenuation or a source independent of such ‘taint’ — precludes the use of such derivative evidence from being a valid basis for establishing the existence of probable cause, under the doctrine of the ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he grand jury’s sources of information are widely drawn, and the validity of an indictment is not affected by the character of the evidence considered. Thus, an indictment valid on its face is not subject to challenge on the ground that the grand jury acted on the basis of inadequate or incompetent evidence. ... Everhart v. State, 274 Md. 459, 487 [ 337 A.2d 100 ] (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.