159 N.C. App. 209 - State v. McArn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he trial court's conclusions of law are fully reviewable on appeal.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 253 - State v. McHone · 197 N.C. App. 630 - State v. Nicholson

2. “The stop must be based on specific and articulable facts, as well as the rational inferences from those facts, as viewed through the eyes of a reasonable, cautious officer, guided by his experience and training. ") (emphasis added). In the present case, because the investigatory stop was legal, defendant's encounter with the officer was not consensual and defendant "did not have a right to resist.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 282 - State v. Satterfield · State v. Washington

3. “[T]he fact that the anonymous tipster provided the location and description of the vehicle may have offered some limited indicia of reliability in that it assisted the police in identifying the vehicle the tipster referenced. It has not gone unnoticed by this Court, however, that the tipster never identified or in any way described an individual. Therefore, the tip upon which Officer Hall relied did not possess the indicia of reliability necessary to provide reasonable suspicion to make an investigatory stop. The anonymous tipster in no way predicted defendant’s actions. The police were thus unable to test the tipster’s knowledge or credibility. Moreover, the tipster failed to explain on what basis he knew about the white Nissan vehicle and related drug activity”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 668 - State v. Peele · 228 N.C. App. 76 - State v. Coleman