State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “First, we look to the 'temporal proximity' between the unconstitutional conduct and the discovery of evidence to determine how closely the discovery of evidence followed the unconstitutional search. Second, we consider 'the presence of intervening circumstances.' Third, and 'particularly' significant, we examine 'the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Sanders · State v. Christian

2. “simply because the officer asked [the defendant] for permission to conduct a pat-down search for weapons”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Andrade-Reyes

3. “[T]he officers immediately began asking Williams questions without indicating he was free to leave.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Guein