200 N.C. App. 437 - State v. Mello’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Sokolow · Illinois v. Wardlow
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“approach[ed] the [defendant's] vehicle putting their hands into the vehicle”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.