195 N.C. App. 430 - State v. Hudgins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he reasonable suspicion standard requires that the stop be based on specific and articulable facts ... as viewed through the eyes of a reasonable, cautious officer, guided by his experience and training.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 589 - State v. Baskins · 247 N.C. App. 327 - State v. Castillo

2. “is strictly limited to determining whether the trial judge's underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge's ultimate conclusions of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Stanley · 244 N.C. App. 685 - State v. Allman

3. “[T]o conduct an investigatory warrantless stop and detention of an individual, a police officer must have reasonable suspicion, grounded in articulable and objective facts, that the individual is engaged in criminal activity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 589 - State v. Baskins · 255 N.C. App. 828 - State v. Walker