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inevitable discovery

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 547 U.S. 586 - Hudson v. Michigan · 2006Most cited · 1,633 citing opinions

when it says, "[i]n this case, of course, the constitutional violation of an illegal "manner "of entry was "not "a but-for cause of obtaining the evidence." "Ante, "at 592.

How often courts cite the case defining “inevitable discovery”

20002010202020301.0k

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inevitable discovery” — 1,633 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.