State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably State v. Colson (1968), State v. Duboise (1971)
3 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · State v. Robinson · State v. Hammonds · State v. Hammonds · State v. Guffey
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In S. v. Coffey, 255 N.C. 293 , 121 S.E. 2d 736 , the Court, after quoting the second sentence of G.S. 15-27.1, said: “ ‘To render evidence incompetent under the foregoing section, it must have been obtained (1) “in the course of . . . search,” (2) “under conditions requiring a search warrant,” and (3) without a legal search warrant. The purpose of this and similar enactments (G.S. 15-27) was “to change the law of evidence in North Carolina, and not the substantive law as to what constitutes legal or illegal search.” Therefore a search that was legal without a warrant before these enactments is still .legal, and evidence so obtained still competent. 30 N. C. Law Review 421. It will be noted that the statutes use the phrase “under conditions requiring a search warrant.” No search warrant is required where the officer “sees or has absolute personal knowledge” that there is intoxicating liquor in an automobile. . . .” State v. Stevens, 264 N.C. 737 , 142 S.E. 2d 588 . See also State v. Bell, 270 N.C. 25 , 153 S.E. 2d 741 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leach · State v. Bell““The provision of this article shall apply to search warrants issued for any purpose including those issued pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 18-13. No facts discovered or evidence obtained by reason of the issuance of an illegal search warrant or without a legal search warrant in the course of any search, made under conditions requiring a search warrant, shall be competent as evidence in the trial of any action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stevens“amount[s] to a voluntary consent to search,”
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.