Delker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is significantly outweighed by the 'substantial social costs' and 'harm to the justice system' exacted by exclusion .... It takes neither a judge nor a lawyer to recognize the compelling social interest in protecting innocent citizens from drunk drivers and the offense to 'basic concepts of the criminal justice system' by 'letting guilty and possibly dangerous defendants go free.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ricky W. Ward v. Dorothy Winston Colom

2. “sufficiently deliberate that the exclusion can meaningfully deter it, and sufficiently culpable that such deterrence is worth the price paid by the justice system.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eaddy v. State

3. “must determine whether the trial court's findings, considering the totality of the circumstances, are supported by substantial credible evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eaddy v. State