Utah v. Strieff’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 10 district · 114 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he inevitable discovery doctrine allows for the admission of evidence that would have been discovered even without the unconstitutional source.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the connection between unconstitutional police conduct and the evidence is remote or has been interrupted by some intervening circumstance.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct.”
15 later decisions 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.