Commonwealth v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Nix v. Williams
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence obtained by exploiting unlawful police conduct must be suppressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.