Commonwealth v. Fredette’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tyree (2010), Commonwealth v. Stroyny (2002)
53 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Gerstein v. Pugh · Nix v. Williams · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine whether the connection between the evidence and the improper conduct has become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint, the facts of each case must be examined in light of three factors: the temporal proximity of the [unlawful conduct] to the obtaining of the evidence; the presence of intervening circumstances; and the purpose and flagrancy of the misconduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]vidence obtained subsequent to unlawful police conduct does not automatically become sacred and inaccessible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“further pursuit of the matter in the hearing of the jury would only add emphasis and importance to the matter”
1 later decision 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.