148 N.C. App. 422 - State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “indicated ... Defendant was in violation of his probation ... [i]t clearly furthered the supervisory goals of probation for [the law enforcement officers] to forward this information to [him], and for [the probation officer] to attempt to investigate this information further by seeking Defendant's consent to a search of the house.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 590 - State v. Powell

2. “authority to search [him] in lieu of obtaining a search warrant, thereby resulting in an attempt by [his probation officer] to gain consent to search Defendant's house which was not in furtherance of the supervisory goals of probation, and was therefore unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 590 - State v. Powell

3. “The independent source doctrine permits the introduction of evidence initially discovered, or as a consequence of, an unlawful search, but later obtained independently from lawful activities untainted by the initial illegality.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 212 - State v. Romano