independent source
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 308 U.S. 338 - Nardone v. United States · 1939Most cited · 4,001 citing opinions
evidence
the facts improperly obtained do not 'become sacred and inaccessible. If knowledge of them is gained from an independent source they may be proved like any others, but the knowledge gained by the Government's own wrong cannot be used by it' simply because it is used derivatively.
How often courts cite the case defining “independent source”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “independent source” — 3,995 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.