Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““First, evidence obtained after initial unlawful governmental activity will be purged of its taint if it was inevitable that the police would have discovered the evidence. See Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 , 104 S.Ct. 2501, 2509 , 81 L.Ed.2d 377, 387 (1984). Second, the taint will be purged upon a showing that the evidence was derived from an independent source. See United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 239-242 , 87 S.Ct. 1926, 1938-1940 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1149, 1164-1166 (1967). The third exception ... will allow the use of evidence where it can be shown that the so-called poison of the unlawful governmental conduct is so attenuated from the evidence as to purge any taint resulting from said conduct. See Wong Sun [v. United States], 371 U.S. [471,] 488, 83 S.Ct. [407,] at 417, 9 L.Ed.2d at 455 [1963].””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Holt · 205 Md. App. 607 - Kamara v. State

2. “'whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 235 Md. App. 299 - Lindsey v. State · 240 Md. App. 252 - Redkovsky v. State

3. “'the cause and effect relationship between the primary illegality and the evidence in issue[.]'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 238 Md. App. 87 - Thornton v. State · King v. State