213 N.C. App. 617 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All the State is required to show is a minimal level of objective justification, something more than an unparticularized suspicion or hunch. A court must consider the totality of the circumstances in determining whether the officer possessed a reasonable and articulable suspicion to make an investigatory stop.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 852 - State v. Sawyers · 219 N.C. App. 139 - State v. Lopez

2. “North Carolina has adopted the federal standard for ineffective assistance of counsel; this standard consists of a two-part test. First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the counsel guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 216 N.C. App. 404 - State v. Surratt