199 N.C. App. 236 - State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[o]nce the original purpose of the stop has been addressed, in order to justify further delay, there must be grounds which provide the detaining officer with additional reasonable and articulable suspicion or the encounter must have become consensual.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 466 - State v. Cole · 203 N.C. App. 675 - State v. Jarrett

2. “Generally, an initial traffic stop concludes and the encounter becomes consensual only after an officer returns the detainee's driver's license and registration.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 650 - State v. Cox · State v. Velazquez-Perez

3. “interrogation was indeed an extension of the detention beyond the scope of the original traffic stop as the interrogation was not necessary to confirm or dispel [the officer's] suspicion that [the driver] was operating [a motor vehicle] without a valid driver's license[.] ... Accordingly, for this extended detention to have been constitutional, [the officer] must have had grounds which provided a reasonable and articulable suspicion or the encounter must have become consensual.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 359 - State v. Leak · 251 N.C. App. 297 - State v. Miller