170 N.C. App. 284 - State v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Both the United States Supreme Court as well as our Courts have suggested that license and registration checkpoints advance an important purpose. The United States Supreme Court has also noted that states have a vital interest in ensuring compliance with other types of motor vehicle laws that promote public safety on the roads.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 181 - State v. Veazey · 203 N.C. App. 675 - State v. Jarrett

2. “an illegal multi-purpose checkpoint [is not] made legal by the simple device of assigning `the primary purpose' to one objective instead of the other[.]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 181 - State v. Veazey · State v. Space

3. “When considering a challenge to a checkpoint, the reviewing court must undertake a two-part inquiry to determine whether the checkpoint meets constitutional requirements. First, the court must determine the primary programmatic purpose of the checkpoint. . . . Second, if a court finds that police had a legitimate primary programmatic purpose for conducting a checkpoint ... [the court] must judge its reasonableness, hence, its constitutionality, on the basis of the individual circumstances.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 675 - State v. Jarrett · 211 N.C. App. 109 - State v. Nolan