McCloud v. Bounds’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 968 · 1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Parker v. North Carolina
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The test for determining the admissibility of the confession is “whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence . . . has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.” Wong Sun, 371 U.S. at 488 , 83 S.Ct. at 417 , quoting Maguire, Evidence of Guilt, 221 (1959). [At p. 970.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . [T]he state here concedes, that the police had neither a warrant nor probable cause for the search, seizure, and arrest, and that they were therefore illegal.” (p. 969.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Childers
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.