111 N.C. App. 581 - State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 112 N.C. App. 777 - State v. Wilson (1993), 136 N.C. App. 386 - State v. Woods (2000)
35 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 Illinois v. Gates · Maryland v. Buie · Agnello v. United States · Segura v. United States · Murray v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]aw enforcement officers have the right to approach a person's residence to inquire whether the person is willing to answer questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the degree of urgency involved and the time necessary to obtain a warrant; (2) the officer's reasonably objective belief that the contraband is about to be removed or destroyed; (3) the possibility of danger to police guarding the site; (4) information indicating the possessors of the contraband are aware that the police are on their trail; and (5) the ready destructibility of the contraband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, would warrant a reasonably prudent officer in believing that the area to be swept harbors an individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene.'”
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.