132 N.C. App. 765 - State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Amendment does not protect the merely subjective expectation of privacy, but only those expectations that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable. No single factor determines whether an individual legitimately may claim under the Fourth Amendment that a place should be free of government intrusion not authorized by warrant. In assessing the degree to which a search infringes upon individual privacy, the Court has given great weight to such factors as the intention of the Framers of the Fourth Amendment, the uses to which the individual has put a location, and our societal understanding that certain areas deserve the most scrupulous protection from government invasion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Borders

2. “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 169 N.C. App. 127 - State v. Boyd

3. “must be accompanied by an affidavit containing facts supporting the motion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 612 - State v. WRIGHT-STOVER