162 N.C. App. 251 - State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

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34 state decisions

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

1. “our review is limited to the question of whether the trial court's findings of fact . . . support its conclusions of law and judgment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 N.C. App. 813 - State v. Reyes · 181 N.C. App. 609 - State v. Trujillo

2. “"[R]easonable suspicion" requires that "[t]he stop ... 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." State v. Watkins, 337 N.C. 437, 441 , 446 S.E.2d 67, 70 (1994). All that is required is a "minimal level of objective justification, something more than an `unparticularized suspicion or hunch.'" Id. at 442 , 446 S.E.2d at 70 (quoting U.S. v. Sokolow, 490 U.S. 1, 7 , 109 S.Ct. 1581, 1585 , 104 L.Ed.2d 1, 10 (1989)). A court must consider the totality of the circumstances in determining whether reasonable suspicion to make an investigatory stop existed. Id. at 441, 446 S.E.2d at 70 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Garcia

3. “[w]ithout any additional circumstances giving rise to a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot, stopping a vehicle for weaving is unreasonable.”

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