250 N.C. App. 142 - State v. Parson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When making a determination of probable cause, the magistrate may not consider evidence outside the four corners of the affidavit, unless the information is either recorded or contemporaneously summarized in the record or on the face of the warrant by the issuing official.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Foster

2. “When reviewing a magistrate's determination of probable cause, this Court must pay great deference and sustain the magistrate's determination if there existed a substantial basis for the magistrate to conclude that articles searched for were probably present.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 366 - State v. Lewis

3. “[T]he simple fact that an individual is dropped off at a particular address does not establish probable cause to search that address in the absence of other allegations of criminal activity .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 848 - State v. Howard