State v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an appellate court should first examine all the admissible evidence available to the state in order to determine what impact the absence of the suppressed evidence will have. The analysis should not stop there, however. The court should go on to examine the inherent qualities of the suppressed evidence itself, its relevance and probative force, its chronological proximity to the alleged crime, its effect in filling gaps in the evidence viewed as a whole, its quality as a perspective of events different from those otherwise available, its clarity and amount of detail and its origin. Suppressed evidence particularly unique in nature and quality is more likely to meet the critical impact test.”

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

2. “`[i]n the absence of critical impact we will not review a pretrial order.'”

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

3. “`significantly reduces the likelihood of a successful prosecution.'”

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