195 N.C. App. 740 - State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In order to preserve an individual's Fourth Amendment rights, it is of the utmost importance that we recognize that the presence of [a suspicious but legal behavior] is not, by itself, proof of any illegal conduct and is often quite consistent with innocent travel.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 650 - State v. Cox · 251 N.C. App. 829 - State v. Downey

2. “If [an] investigatory seizure is invalid [due to a lack of reasonable suspicion], evidence resulting from the warrantless stop is inadmissible under the exclusionary rule in both our federal and state constitutions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 650 - State v. Cox · 199 N.C. App. 319 - State v. Louis

3. “Reasonable suspicion is a `less demanding standard than probable cause and requires a showing considerably less than preponderance of the evidence[.]'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 650 - State v. Cox · 199 N.C. App. 319 - State v. Louis