United States v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
454 F.2d 813 · 1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably United States Department of Justice v. Julian (1988), United States v. Charmer Industries, Inc. (1983)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Chambers v. Maroney · Gilbert v. California
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We need not hold that all evidence is ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. Rather, the more apt question in such a case is ‘whether, 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’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint'”
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.