State v. Saavedra’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Factors that have a bearing on this issue include the temporal proximity of the illegality and the fruit of that illegality, the presence of intervening circumstances, and the purpose and flagrancy of the police misconduct. (Citation omitted). The flagrancy of the police misconduct is particularly important because the purpose of the exclusionary rule is to deter police misconduct.” State v. Saavedra, 396 N.W.2d at 305 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Glaesman · State v. Thordarson

2. “Indvik's independent and intervening actions of engaging the officer in a high-speed chase, running from the police officers into the woods, drawing a firearm on the police officers—and actually firing it— break the chain of causation and dissipate the taint of the prior illegality, i.e., the invalid stop.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ritter · State v. Glaesman

3. “evidence sought to be suppressed was gathered `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
   e.g. State v. Glaesman