149 N.C. App. 200 - State v. Chadwick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' " test, using a " ` " `balanced assessment of the relative weights of all the various indicia of reliability (and unreliability) attending an informant's tip.[']”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Watson · 205 N.C. App. 509 - State v. Simmons

2. “defendant was about to (1) deliver a large amount of cocaine to a specific location, (2) be driven by a black female in an older model four-door black Nissan Sentra, because defendant did not have a driver's license, (3) be taken to a Texaco station at the corner of Highway 17 North and Piney Green Road, (4) be traveling from a certain direction, (5) park next to a telephone booth in the parking lot, (6) act like he was there to use the telephone, and (7) conduct a drug transaction there.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 160 N.C. App. 310 - State v. Collins

3. “[a] known informant's information may establish probable cause based on a reliable track record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 160 N.C. App. 310 - State v. Collins