State v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a reasonable person in defendant's position would have believed he was in custody . . . when, after admitting to his station house interrogators that he had participated in a homicide, those same interrogators accompanied him to the bathroom, with an officer staying with defendant at all times.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 187 N.C. App. 306 - State v. Seek · 196 N.C. App. 147 - State v. Rooks

2. “would contribute to an objective determination that [the] defendant's freedom of movement was restrained to the degree associated with a formal arrest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 187 N.C. App. 306 - State v. Seek

3. “A trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress is conclusive on appeal `if [it is] supported by competent evidence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 150 N.C. App. 211 - State v. Stokes