United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “generally prohibits the introduction at criminal trial of evidence obtained in violation of a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Williams · 243 N.C. App. 156 - State v. Perry

2. “is to deter future Fourth Amendment violations.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Williams · State v. Adam M. Blackman

3. “We have serious doubts about [appellant's] narrow view of the good-faith inquiry. Nothing in Davis itself supports such an interpretation. Instead, Davis merely establishes the inapplicability of the exclusionary rule in one specific circumstance. Davis does not, however, alter the general good-faith inquiry which, we reiterate, requires consideration of whether a reasonably well-trained officer would have known that a search was illegal in light of all of the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Collins v. Commonwealth