State v. Kirn’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2022
22 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 Aguiar v. Hawaii Housing Authority · State v. Texeira · State v. Tengan · State v. Johnson · Abramson v. Board of Regents, University of Hawaii
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pretrial motions to suppress are not limited to admission of evidence which violates the Constitution. The scope of the motion to suppress is broader [than illegal searches and seizures] and includes within its ambit the exclusion of evidence illegally obtained. McCormick on Evidence § 180, at 521 n. 10 (3d ed. 1984); Black’s Law Dictionary 914 (5th ed. 1979); 29 Am.Jur.2d Evidence § 408, at nn. 4-5 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pattioay“In addition to the violation by the State of a defendant’s constitutional rights, ... [a] “violation of a statute, or ... violation of an administrative rule adopted pursuant to HRS chapter 91 ... [,] since such rules have the force and effect of law[,]” can serve as the illegal act justifying suppression of otherwise admissible evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Augafa“(b) The subject shall be continuously observed for not less than fifteen minutes prior to the collection of the breath sam pie, during which period the subject shall not have ingested alcoholic beverages, vomited, eaten or smoked.”
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.