100 N.C. App. 628 - State v. Aubin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 159 N.C. App. 209 - State v. McArn (2003), 170 N.C. App. 299 - State v. Hernandez (2005)
36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Fincher · State v. Belk · 99 N.C. App. 421 - State v. Morocco · 96 N.C. App. 389 - State v. Jones · State v. Richardson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A police officer may conduct a brief investigative stop of a vehicle where justified by specific, articulable facts which give rise to a reasonable suspicion of illegal conduct.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the State relies on a purported consent to justify a warrantless search, it has the burden of proving that the consent was voluntary and not the result of express or implied coercion. Voluntariness is a question of fact to be determined from all the surrounding circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant's consent to search the automobile for contraband entitled [the officer] to conduct a reasonable search anywhere inside the automobile which reasonably might contain contraband . . . .”
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.