State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Phillips (1980), State v. Streeter (1973)
87 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Draper v. United States · United States v. Coplon
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) When the person to be arrested has committed a felony or misdemeanor in the presence of the officer, or when the officer has reasonable ground to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a felony or misdemeanor in his presence;. . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McMillan · State v. Parker““ * A police officer may search the person of one whom he has lawfully arrested as an incident of such arrest. . . . In the course of such search, the officer may lawfully take from the person arrested any property which such person has about him and which is connected with the crime charged or which may be required as evidence thereof. If such article is otherwise competent, it may properly be introduced in evidence by the State.’ State v. Roberts, 276 N.C. 98, 102 , 171 S.E. 2d 440, 448 . Accord, State v. Tippett, 270 N.C. 588 , 155 S.E. 2d 269 . ‘Unquestionably, when a person is lawfully arrested, the police have the right, without a search warrant, to make a contemporaneous search of the person of the accused for weapons or for the fruits of or implements used to commit the crime.’ Preston v. United States, 376 U.S. 364, 367 , 11 L. ed. 2d 777, 780, 84 S.Ct. 881, 883 . Accord, Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752, 762-763 , 23 L. ed. 2d 685, 694, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 2040 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The existence of `probable cause,' justifying an arrest without a warrant, is determined by factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. It is a pragmatic question to be determined in each case in the light of the particular circumstances and the particular offense involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Streeter
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.