111 N.C. App. 808 - State v. Pittman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2017
17 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 Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Florida v. Bostick · Alabama v. White
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“]. However, if the police conduct a full search of an individual without a warrant or consent, they must have probable cause, and there must be exigent circumstances. State v. Pittman, 111 N.C.App. 808 , 812, 433 S.E.2d 822 , 824 (1993) (citing State v. Mills, 104 N.C.App. 724 , 730, 411 S.E.2d 193 , 196 (1991)); see also Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 499, 103 S.Ct. 1319 , 75 L.Ed.2d 229 , 237 (1983) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]etentions may be `investigative' yet violative of the Fourth Amendment absent probable cause. In the name of investigating a person who is no more than suspected of criminal activity, the police may not carry out a full search of the person or of his automobile or other effects. Nor may the police seek to verify their suspicions by means that approach the conditions of arrest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable person acting in good faith could reasonably believe that a search of the defendant would reveal the controlled substances sought which would aid in his conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fuller
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.