State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

60 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(c) powers. Any municipality shall have the power to do any of the following, in addition to all powers granted to municipalities under the constitution and general statutes . . . “(4) public services. (A) Provide for police protection, regulate and prescribe the duties of the persons providing police protection with respect to criminal matters within the limits of the municipality and maintain and regulate a suitable place of detention within the limits of the municipality for the safekeeping of all persons arrested and awaiting trial and do all other things necessary or desirable for the policing of the municipality . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Miller

2. “[T]he question to be resolved concerning the admissibility of derivative evidence is whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which the objection is made has been come at by exploitation of the initial illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint. . . . Here, even assuming, without deciding, that the Terry stop of the defendant was illegal, we cannot agree that this rendered the gun inadmissible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 5779 - State v. James P., No. 98-09-186 (May 17, 1999)