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144 N.C. App. 636 - State v. Nowell’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Negron v. United States · Griffith v. United States · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Alaska v. Babbitt · State v. Cooke

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

  1. “When a defendant in a criminal prosecution makes a motion to suppress evidence obtained by means of a warrantless search, the State has the burden of showing, at the suppression hearing, how the [warrantless search] was exempted from the general constitutional demand for a warrant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “if probable cause exists to search and the exigencies of the situation make search without a warrant necessary.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “destruction or disappearance of a controlled substance.”
    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.