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State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

148
cited by 148 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
17
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

142 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 148 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Edmunds (1991), Heien v. North Carolina (2014)

142 state decisions — followed in 17 states

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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 United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Stone v. Powell · United States v. Calandra

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

  1. “General warrants, whereby any officer or other person may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of the act committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty and shall not be granted.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 145 N.C. App. 506 - State v. Pearson · State v. Garner
  2. “[W]e have the authority to construe our own constitution differently from the construction by the United States Supreme Court of the Federal Constitution, as long as our citizens are thereby accorded no lesser rights than they are guaranteed by the parallel federal provision.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 119 N.C. App. 654 - Matter of Stradford · 200 N.C. App. 323 - LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF NC v. State
  3. “for the sake of maintaining the integrity of the judicial branch of government.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Garner · People v. Goldston

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.