178 N.C. App. 330 - State v. Pickard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[o]nly unreasonable investigatory stops are unconstitutional. An investigatory stop must be justified by a reasonable suspicion, based on objective facts, that the individual is involved in criminal activity. 2 A court must consider the totality of the circumstances — the whole picture [ — ] in determining whether a reasonable suspicion to make an investigatory stop exists. 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. The only requirement is a minimal level of objective justification, something more than an unparticularized suspicion or hunch.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 N.C. App. 701 - State v. Campbell · 242 N.C. App. 253 - State v. Muhammad

2. “failed to assign error to any findings of fact, our review [of the denial of a motion to suppress] is limited to the question of whether the trial court's findings of fact, which are presumed to be supported by competent evidence, support its conclusions of law and judgment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 N.C. App. 813 - State v. Reyes · 179 N.C. App. 297 - State v. Stone

3. “However, the trial court's conclusions of law are reviewed de novo and must be legally correct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 373 - State v. Blow · 197 N.C. App. 760 - State v. Laurel