Cooper v. Picard’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
September 1975
most recently cited
1 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Townsend v. Sain
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.
““‘[W]hether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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