184 N.C. App. 25 - State v. Barnard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] police officer may effect a brief investigatory seizure of an individual where the officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime may be underway.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 760 - State v. Laurel · 198 N.C. App. 206 - State v. Morton

2. “[t]he 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.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 760 - State v. Laurel · 189 N.C. App. 454 - State v. Robinson

3. ““whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 199 N.C. App. 236 - State v. Jackson