32 N.C. App. 204 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2011
18 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Ker v. State of California
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At most the circumstances would support a reasonable suspicion of defendant’s possession of a contraband drug which would have justified an approach. and temporary detention of the defendant in an appropriate manner for purposes of investigating his possible criminal behavior. Had the officer done so, he may well have been able to determine that defendant was in possession of marijuana. Instead, the officer resorted to aggressive and unlawful behavior.”
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.